On Sun, 28 Aug 2022 at 19:27, Tobias Frost <t...@debian.org> wrote: > So, even with the switch, the build system needs it at least at > configure time, which is the reason why it failed at the second time. > (make distclean was the command that failed; as the removal of lua > was only directly before the build, it worked the first time.)
Yes, autotools assume it to be part of the complete SOURCE tree, and requiring some actions (any 'dist...' -target) as such. - ML
