Re: Please help

[Bob Proulx]

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Eric Blake wrote:
> Warren Young wrote:
> >> autoconf
> >> make: autoconf: Command not found
> > 
> > Maybe it's because the autoconf command is not found, which would happen
> > because the autoconf package is not installed.
> > 
> > The reason 'make' might require this are that either the package you are
> > using was configured for maintainer mode and you changed configure.ac or
> > one of the files it depends on, or it's just poorly designed, requiring
> > autoconf for more than just the developer machines.
> 
> Which means, unless you edited files, you have the right to complain to
> the package maintainer that they should clean up their distribution
> process.  One of the goals of autoconf is to create package distributions
> that can be installed independently of the existence of autoconf on the
> target machine.

It is possible for a builder to "clean up" for these types of problems
by setting all of the timestamps to the same value.  This will cause
'make' to think they are all up to date.  It is a brute-force solution
but should work around timestamp accidentally modified issues.

  find . -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 touch --reference .
  make clean
  make

Bob