Re: proper autotools ordering?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Karl,

* Karl Berry wrote on Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:39:21AM CET:
> 
> I've been using aclocal - autoheader - automake - autoconf for years,
> but have no idea any more where I got that ordering.  I see that
> autoreconf runs autoconf before autoheader, and ah before am, so I
> suppose this is it:
> aclocal - autoconf - autoheader - automake.

The reason autoreconf runs autoconf before autoheader is that the former
typically gives better error messages than the latter.  autoheader
before automake helps avoid a message from automake about missing
config.h.in.

If autoreconf doesn't work for some project, then we'd like to know why,
so we can fix it.  It really should be used.

Cheers,
Ralf