Re: Building 4.6.2

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh medozas de>]

On Wednesday 2009-02-04 07:52, Patrick Winnertz wrote:
>
>> I think this is error. Run of ./configure is enougth in release tarball.
>> Correct tarball must provides all required files to be ndependent
>> of autotools installed or not on current host.
>
>Jepp. that's true. And I found the error I guess:
>winnie energy:/tmp/mc-4.6.2$ ls -l ./config/install-sh
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 winnie winnie 35  4. Feb 07:49 ./config/install-sh -> 
>/usr/share/automake-1.10/install-sh
>winnie energy:/tmp/mc-4.6.2$
>
>It seeems that autogen.sh create links instead of copying the files to the 
>correct place. 

Which is why autogen.sh should consist of:

	autoreconf -fi

It is not necessary to run all the tools on their own
(but see `info autoreconf`).