Re: invoking config.status

[Raja R Harinath]

Hi,

Harlan Stenn <address@hidden> writes:

> Under 1.5, it would appear that:
>
>  CONFIG_FILES=Makefile config.status
>
> differs from:
>
>  config.status Makefile

Well, this is a 'autoconf 2.5x' feature.

> in 2 ways:
>
> - "config.status Makefile" will look up the input templates and follow them,
>   producing the Makefile as specified from AC_CONFIG_FILES(...) .

This is right.

> - "CONFIG_FILES=Makefile config.status" will produce Makefile using the
>   implicit template Makefile:Makefile.in, and then run the default-1
>   script (ie, "do the dependency thing").

The first part of this may be a bug in (older?) versions of 'autoconf'.

[snip]
> As for the "run the dependency stuff" piece, is it a bug or a feature that
> it's run in one case and not in the other?  I'm not sure if the behavior has
> changed in 1.6.3 or not - I'll probably dig there this weekend.

I guess it's a feature in 'autoconf'.  This is handled, somewhat
hackily, in v1.6: look for $(am__depfiles_maybe).  It is waiting for
a better way to express hooks on CONFIG_FILES in 'autoconf'.

- Hari
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