Re: needs help

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:13:22PM -0600, Robert Boehne wrote:
> Toni:
> 
> Your testers don't need aclocal, autoconf, or automake installed unless
> they are making changes to Makefile.am or configure.ac.  Once you
> generate "configure" that's all they need.  If someone else's Makefile
> is running these tools, take it out, it's just plain wrong.
>   The idea of Autoconf is that it creates a portable shell script
> "configure" that does all the work.  Nothing but the bourne shell
> is required to generate the Makefiles.

There are a number of (badly-broken-by-design) makefiles that add dependencies
to regenerate the configure script.
 
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