Re: Why does make run git?

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

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On 08/02/2017 12:10 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Maybe I'm confused, but top-level Makefile.in has this:
>
>    $(srcdir)/configure: $(srcdir)/configure.ac $(srcdir)/m4/*.m4
> 	  cd $(srcdir) && ./autogen.sh
>
Ah, you're right, that should say './autogen.sh autoconf', not plain 
'./autogen.sh', since the intent is only to build 'configure'. This is a 
typo regardless of whether my recently-proposed patch is accepted, and I 
fixed it with the attached.

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From 8aed1e9d1b7a4969039844163f6a89eee78510a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 13:01:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify when autogen.sh should run only autoconf
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* Makefile.in (configure, bootstrap): Run ‘./autogen.sh autoconf’,
not plain ‘./autogen.sh’, to make it clear that only
autoconf-related tools should be run here.
---
 Makefile.in | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index a31d416bd7..8a08465c4a 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ config.status:
 	fi
 
 $(srcdir)/configure: $(srcdir)/configure.ac $(srcdir)/m4/*.m4
-	cd $(srcdir) && ./autogen.sh
+	cd $(srcdir) && ./autogen.sh autoconf
 
 # ==================== Installation ====================
 
@@ -1094,7 +1094,7 @@ .PHONY:
 #  * Rebuild Makefile, to update the build procedure itself.
 #  * Do the actual build.
 bootstrap: bootstrap-clean
-	cd $(srcdir) && ./autogen.sh
+	cd $(srcdir) && ./autogen.sh autoconf
 	$(MAKE) MAKEFILE_NAME=force-Makefile force-Makefile
 	$(MAKE) all
 
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