proper autotools ordering?

[Karl Berry]

I've been looking through the manuals and code, but not finding a
definitive answer: is there a canonical/recommended ordering of running
the autotools, including automake?

I've been using aclocal - autoheader - automake - autoconf for years,
but have no idea any more where I got that ordering.  I see that
autoreconf runs autoconf before autoheader, and ah before am, so I
suppose this is it:
aclocal - autoconf - autoheader - automake.

Whatever the answer is, I suggest adding it to the manual(s).

Thanks,
karl