Build error 2.3 on Ubuntu lucid beta

[John Ralls]

On Mar 25, 2010, at 7:10 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:

> On Thursday 25 March 2010, Colin Law wrote:
>> 
>> For the future how do I know when I need to do autogen and/or
>> configure?  Is it best just to do a full build including those any
>> time I pull from the repository?
>> 
> Here are my rough guidelines:
> 
> You will have to rerun autogen.sh if:
> a. configure.in has changed
> b. any of the *.m4 files in macros has changed
> b. any of the *.m4 macro files changes on your system, which can happen for 
> example if you install newer development libraries
> 
> You will have to rerun configure if
> a. you reran autogen.sh
> b. any of the Makefile.am files has been updated
> 

You need to run autogen.sh if a Makefile.am is changed. Autogen runs automake which makes Makefile.in from Makefile.am; configure uses Makefile.in, not Makefile.am, for input to create Makefile.

Regards,
John Ralls