* Sam Steingold wrote on Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:35:21PM CEST: > 1. should I always invoke automake with --add-missing?
No, once is sufficient. > 2. will automake notice that it has a newer version of something for > build-aux and tell me or do I need to check that myself every once in a > while? is there something like gnulib-update for build-aux? Use '--add-missing --force-missing' every once in a while; see here <http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Invoking-Automake> for more information. For fully autotooled projects, autoreconf (which also has a --force option) can do update all the Autoconf and Automake files for you. <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/autoreconf-Invocation.html> I have not checked whether that works for you. If you need to pass arguments to aclocal for a manual invocation, put them in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in the toplevel Makefile.am so autoreconf finds them. Cheers, Ralf
