Re: rules, rules, and more (code policy) rules

[Simon Josefsson]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'm now using this (with a couple of modifications) in GNU SASL.
>>
>> One thing that struck me as very useful, is the ability to invoke
>> tests without having to autoreconf + configure.
> ...
>
> If I forget to run ./configure ..., I'd rather get a warning
> than have GNUmakefile run it for me.
>
> Providing the rules might be nice, as long as they're hooked to some
> nonstandard target.

Yep, I agree.  It should be possible to override this in Makefile.cfg,
for those of us how want to invoke autoreconf + configure
automatically.