From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32255 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2005 02:01:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 32032 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2005 02:01:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dair.pair.com) (209.68.1.49) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 13 Jan 2005 02:01:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 70076 invoked by uid 20157); 13 Jan 2005 02:01:34 -0000 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:01:00 -0000 From: Hans-Peter Nilsson X-X-Sender: hp@dair.pair.com To: Andrew Cagney cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [commit/sim] Force generation of configure and other stuff; Was: [commit/sim] switch autoconf 2.59 In-Reply-To: <41E5501A.3000907@gnu.org> Message-ID: References: <41DF55E5.7010307@gnu.org> <41E43F98.1010601@gnu.org> <41E47C74.3050607@gnu.org> <41E5501A.3000907@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2005-01/txt/msg00096.txt.bz2 On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Andrew Cagney wrote: > Seems that you need > to really want to run the new autoconf (unlike the old) - even though I > ran autoconf in all those directories it didn't do as I ask. I've > re-run it with --force and that's had an effect. BIG WARNING regarding autoconf 2.59: stupid or nonexistent dependency checking wrt. sincluded files. It doesn't seem to follow sinclude wrt. changes, so if there was a change only in such a file, configure isn't remade. So, I recommend always using --force. Clues correcting any misunderstanding on my part are welcome. brgds, H-P