Installation problems GnuCash1.4.9.tgz on SuSE 6.4 Solved/Inf

[James LewisMoss]

>>>>> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:00:01 -0600 (CST), linas@linas.org said:

 linas> Dave, I guess your the maintainer ... is there an easy way of
 linas> setting up a 'make realclean' so that config.cache is erased
 linas> and autogen.sh get rerun automagically?  'make clean' is not
 linas> enough after installing/upgrading lbraries,

 linas> --linas

 linas> It's been rumoured that Meer van Houtum, P.G. van der said:
 >>
 >> >> Then reinstall guile1.4 and g-wrap0.9.8 (be sure to make clean
 >> >> before install)
 >> >
 >> >actually, you will want to rm config.cache and then ./autogen.sh
 >> >in the gnucash dir; otherwise, you configure will remember the
 >> >old libraries/commands.
 >> Sorry, before compiling I am used to do a make clean. The make
 >> clean for the gnucash dir did not enter in the notes expplicitly
 >> but should be there.

To get a completely rebuilt system you want to

make distclean
./configure <options>
make

Normal gnu software methodology.

autogen.sh exists because you don't want auto generated files
(Makefile.in's, configure, config.h.in, etc etc) in CVS.  It produces
these files.

In fact you should be able to change configure.in and Makefile.am's
and have make regenerate things as well because automake adds rules to
do this (though sometimes this doesn't work as well as it seems it
should or at least that's my impression).

Jim

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