From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
Cc: 17258@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17258: autogen.sh doesn't update stale autoconf files in build-aux
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 13:19:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837g6tmt0q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvlhio6b.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
> From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:17:16 +0200
>
>
> While troubleshooting a problem with configure on my system, I found
> that autogen.sh never updated these autoconf files in build-aux, so they
> were still the same as when they had been generated/copied three years
> ago:
>
> build-aux/compile
> build-aux/config.guess
> build-aux/config.sub
> build-aux/install-sh
> build-aux/missing
> build-aux/depcomp
>
> Apparently these files are just checked for existence unless the
> "--force" option is also given (which autogen.sh doesn't do). I'm
> currently using autoconf 2.69 if that matters.
Aren't these files created by automake, which is invoked by
autoreconf? If so, this is not really an Emacs problem, is it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-13 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-13 9:17 bug#17258: autogen.sh doesn't update stale autoconf files in build-aux Achim Gratz
2014-04-13 10:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-04-13 10:50 ` Achim Gratz
2014-04-13 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-13 11:30 ` Achim Gratz
2014-04-13 11:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-14 5:45 ` Paul Eggert
2014-04-14 17:14 ` Achim Gratz
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