Build error 2.3 on Ubuntu lucid beta

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Mar 25 14:08:07 EDT 2010


Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> writes:

> On 25 March 2010 15:31, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>..
>> 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.
>
> Would it be possible to have a top level make that ran autogen and
> configure when appropriate?  One would have to provide the params for
> configure somehow of course.

Generally the auto-tools will re-run it for you in maintainer mode.
I honestly don't know why it didn't re-run for you.  It certainly does
it for me on Linux.

> Colin

-derek
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