Re: automake 1.4 & autoconf 2.50

[Ali Akcaagac <ali akcaagac stud fh-wilhelmshaven de>]

On 2001.06.18 12:40:07 +0200 Ali Akcaagac wrote:
> On 2001.06.18 11:43:13 +0200 Matthias Andree wrote:
> > Ali Akcaagac schrieb am Dienstag, den 12. Juni 2001:
> > 
> > > i switched to a new automake and autoconf today and now
> > > encounter configure problems. i would appreciate if you
> > > guys could review the configure.in scripts and make it
> > > compatible to this version.
> > 
> > You don't need to run autoconf before building things :-)
> > 
> > Seriously, autoconf calls its configure source now configure.ac, in case
> > you missed that :-)
> 
> huch.... :)
> 
> older mail.. hmm allready solved that problem.
> between yes you need autoconf and new automake
> specially if you work with CVS. the new autoconf
> is also necessary because if you have e.g. normal
> source packages that you want to configure and
> install. then the configure scripts get rebuild
> for new autoconf m4 macros.. just try out yourself
> get some source tarballs. note the size of the
> configure script. run ./configure and then before
> doing make look at the cahnged size (the configure
> script) got adjusted for new autconf macros :)

forget to mention that it is not necessarily needed to
use the new autoconfig or automake but if so, then it
should work. i had problems after autoconf tried to
remake the configure scripts to fit the new way. but
thats solved..

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