autoconf/automake questions

[Albert Strasheim]

Hello,

I have some questions regarding the autoconf and automake configuration 
of the Common C++ project, specifically the commoncpp2 CVS module.

Firstly, it seems that whenever one runs ./configure, everything is 
rebuilt the next time you run make. This is probably a good policy in 
general, but when one is working on files related to the build system 
and you know that the configure options haven't changed, you might want 
to turn this off. Which macro do I hack? :-)

Secondly, changes to Makefile.am doesn't seem to automatically trigger 
the "rebuilding" of Makefile.in and Makefile, instead requiring that one 
does a ./reconfig && ./configure, causing a complete rebuild as 
described above.

This is quite annoying when you are adding files to a specific _SOURCES 
target, and just want to rebuild just this one target with the 
additional sources. How do I change this behaviour?

Happy holidays and all that. :-)

Cheers,

Albert