On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:13:22PM -0600, Robert Boehne wrote: > Toni: > > Your testers don't need aclocal, autoconf, or automake installed unless > they are making changes to Makefile.am or configure.ac. Once you > generate "configure" that's all they need. If someone else's Makefile > is running these tools, take it out, it's just plain wrong. > The idea of Autoconf is that it creates a portable shell script > "configure" that does all the work. Nothing but the bourne shell > is required to generate the Makefiles.
There are a number of (badly-broken-by-design) makefiles that add dependencies to regenerate the configure script. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
