Salut Akim! On 27 Dec 2012, at 17:25, Akim Demaille <a...@lrde.epita.fr> wrote: > I recently realized that I was stuck with an old ylwrap. I > thought that bootstrap was appropriately upgrading my environment > when a newer Automake was installed, but it is not the case, as > bootstrap reads: > > # Tell autoreconf not to invoke autopoint or libtoolize; they were run above. > echo "running: AUTOPOINT=true LIBTOOLIZE=true " \ > "$AUTORECONF --verbose --install $no_recursive -I $m4_base $ACLOCAL_FLAGS" > AUTOPOINT=true LIBTOOLIZE=true \ > $AUTORECONF --verbose --install $no_recursive -I $m4_base $ACLOCAL_FLAGS \ > || die "autoreconf failed" > > so it does not pass --force. Maybe there are other similar > files that are kept in the past, I don't know. > > Is there a reason not to pass --force?
My bootstrap rewrite (used by Libtool & Zile among others) has always passed any `--force' from it's own command line along to all autoreconf and libtoolize invocations it makes without any problems. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
