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Re: Bootstrapping from cvs
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: Bootstrapping from cvs |
Date: |
09 Jul 2002 10:01:24 +0200 |
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Hi Tom,
| Today I updated autoconf from cvs for the first time in a long while.
| A simple `configure; make' didn't work. It tries repeatedly to run
| autoconf, automake, etc.
Why?
| I suggest we use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE. I know this is not always
| popular, but I think autoconf is a special case. It is one of the few
| tools that has this bootstrapping problem.
Really, I'm against it.
| The current failure (after touching configure and "cvsdiscard"ing the
| incorrectly rebuild Makefile.in's) looks like this:
|
| make[1]: Entering directory `/home/tromey/gnu/Auto/autoconf/build/bin'
| ../tests/autom4te --language M4sh ../../autoconf/bin/autoconf.as -o
../../autoconf/bin/autoconf.in
| autom4te: cannot open /home/tromey/gnu/Auto/autoconf/build/lib/autom4te.cfg:
No such file or directory
| at /home/tromey/gnu/Auto/autoconf/build/bin/autom4te line 428
|
| (I don't know what this one means, unfortunately -- I've been out of
| the loop too long!)
Recently some changes were introduced in the build process, changes I
have not tracked down completely. Up to now, we never faced the
problem you exposed, so I would like to know more.
Anyway, running tests/autoreconf (yes, tests/) should make it.