Re: config.in

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

|>     I have now replaced the dependency on configure.in by a variable, which
|>     can be set to FRC or configure.in to force running autoconf and
|>     autoheader.
|> 
|> That is a good solution.  You can make your .bashrc set the variable,
|> so that configure and config.in will always be updated for you.

This won't work, because make does not override makefile variable from the
environment by default.  What people can do, however, is to run `make
MAINT=configure.in' when they modify configure.in to get things rebuilt.

Andreas.

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