Re: Fun with upgrades - not

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> address@hidden:~/lilypond-git$ sh autogen.sh --noconfigure
>>>> processing .
>>>> Running autoconf ...
>>>> autogen.sh: 17: autogen.sh: autoconf: not found
>>>
>>> Hm. Sounds like autoconf is not installed; it's not listed
>>> explicitly in the build dependencies in the Debian package either,
>>> so that's probably an oversight by the package maintainer.
>> 
>> autoconf is not normally a requirement when building from a tarball
>> which usually contains the autoconf-generated files.  autoconf is
>> only needed for building directly from a repository checkout.  I
>> don't think that Debian usually does that.
>
> Maybe a time stamp issue, making `configure.ac' newer than
> `configure'?

Repositories don't contain generated files in general.

-- 
David Kastrup