* Stepan Kasal wrote on Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:52:31PM CEST:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:03:14PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> > Stepan> I would suffice if autoconf, when called in 3) updated ./configure.
> > Stepan> (It presents only minimum of extra work.)
> >
> > I don't think it works :
*snip*
Also, you are munging time stamps behind `make's back.
And, how can you be sure the user doesn't have
$(srcdir)/my-other-configure: configure.ac aclocal.m4
cd $(srcdir) && autoconf -o ...
? (Granted, the latter is a bit far-fetched, and will evoke an automake
warning.)
> It is possible to fix it by replacing the dependency:
>
> $(srcdir)/Makefile.in: $(srcdir)/Makefile.am $(am__configure_deps)
>
> by
>
> $(srcdir)/Makefile.in: $(srcdir)/Makefile.am $(top_srcdir)/configure
>
> Would you like this amended proposal?
This would silently break lots of `bootstrap' scripts that call
aclocal
automake
autoconf
in that order, instead of the other way. (Remember that was the order
in which autoreconf-2.13 called them; although virtually unusable, it
may reasonably have served as a prototype of many bootstrap scripts
still in use out there, and working so far.)
Cheers,
Ralf
