On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:29, Bill Wendling wrote: > There's an annoyance with automake which is causing us serious problems. > I'm using "autoreconf" to regenerate all of the Makefile.ins, header > files, configure, etc. However, when it gets checked into CVS and used on > another platform, the Makefiles try to reconfigure everything (with > autoconf, etc.). Yet, the newest autoconf, automake, etc. scripts aren't > available on those platforms. > > How can I get the Makefiles to NOT try to regenerate things? > Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to your configure.{ac,in}, run autoconf again and these rules will be disabled unless you supply the --enable-maintainer-mode option to configure.
Alternatively don't commit any autoconf, automake or aclocal generated file to CVS, and run 'autoreconf -i' after checkout. To ensure the right versions are used, set a minimum version of each tool using AC_PREREQ and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macros. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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