Hi Kendrick, * Kendrick Smith wrote on Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:46:07PM CEST: > > Can anyone tell me why an Automake-generated Makefile > would rerun the 'configure' script when 'make' is invoked, > and whether there's a (possibly heavy-handed) way to disable > this behavior?
Usually, Automake-generated Makefiles contain rules to update "config.status", "Makefile" itself, and even "configure". A partial dependency tree is drawn in the documentation info Autoconf "Making configure Scripts" but additional dependencies may have been specified in configure.ac by the variables CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES and CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES. (In the end, I've sometimes had to resort to reading the output of "make" with various debug options added, to find out which file was out of date and caused a specific rebuild.) One way to disable these rules is to add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac and recreate everything. Then, the configure option --enable-maintainer-mode is necessary to re-enable these rules. Read info Automake maintainer-mode for more information about this topic. Cheers, Ralf
