Re: Unwanted autoheader call included in Makefile.in

[Guido Draheim]

Rafael Laboissiere schrieb:
> When I use the macro AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, automake includes a rule in
> Makefile.in to rebuild config.h.in through autoheader.  Now, I do not want
> at all that this file gets touched by autoheader, even when I modifiy one of
> its "presumed dependencies" aclocal.m4 and configure.ac.

I've been plagued with some implicit and unnecessary `rebuild`s in
some projects - and the solution is quite simple: in your configure.ac
script, reset autotools variables to a colon - i.e.
   AUTOHEADER=":"
or perhaps better yet, rewrite it as
   AUTOHEADER="echo autoheader ignored"
so you still see when it would have been called.

> Is that a way to disable this automake behavior, or am I asking for
> something that is complete non-sense?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.

have fun, guido