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Re: question about autotools within GNU make itself
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: question about autotools within GNU make itself |
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Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:58:44 +0100 |
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On Jan 16 2018, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> The automake generated makefiles know how to rebuild Makefile.in,
> Makefile, configure, etc. based on the out-of-date-ness of the base
> files such as configure.ac and Makefile.am. So if those files are
> updated, then the makefile will attempt to re-run those tools and
> regenerate their output. This fails if you don't have them installed.
If you use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE then this rebuild will only happen when
configured with --enable-maintainer-mode.
Andreas.
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