Re: [OT] Re: ok that nearly works.

From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
To: Paul Davis <pbd Op Net>
Cc: Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>, Ingo Krabbe <i krabbe dokom net>, "gtk-list gnome org" <gtk-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: ok that nearly works.
Date: 17 Dec 2001 10:02:15 -0500

Paul Davis <pbd Op Net> writes: 
> if a makefile ever realizes that you need to rebuild configure from
> configure.in, it will run aclocal *without* ACLOCAL_FLAGS being passed
> as an argument. if your build process relies on ACLOCAL_FLAGS being
> passed to aclocal, then the automatic rebuilding of a configure script
> will not work.

Lots of configure.in scripts have this workaround in them:

 # Honor aclocal flags
 ACLOCAL="$ACLOCAL $ACLOCAL_FLAGS"

Havoc

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