>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Stephen> Proposal: Have a top-level initial Makefile that looks like
Stephen> configure: configure.in
Stephen> autoconf
Stephen> echo "If autoconf succeeded, you should now run configure."
Stephen> echo "If it did not, you should complainto the developers for"
Stephen> echo "not providing an up-to-date configure."
Makefile.in.in already has:
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configure: ${srcdir}/configure ${srcdir}/lib-src/config.values.in
${srcdir}/configure: ${srcdir}/configure.in
cd ${srcdir} && autoconf
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This is not triggered by a "make all". Is remembering to type "make
configure" any better than remembering to type "autoconf"?
Malcolm
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Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp(a)xemacs.org>