[Fedora-directory-devel] Please review: [Bug 212098] Use autoconf to generate task perl script templates

[Richard Megginson]

Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 18:14 -0700, Pete Rowley wrote:
>   
>> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>>     
>>> Our current policy is to generate these files for release tarballs, and
>>> for our 'unpacked' tree on samba.org (current SVN checked out).
>>>   
>>>       
>> OTOH they are required in order to do:
>>
>> cvs co
>> ./configure
>> make
>>     
>
> Yeah, projects typically end up with an ./autogen.sh to make the right
> innovation of the configure generation tool.
>   
I've found that using autoreconf usually does the right thing.  When I 
change configure.ac/in or Makefile.am or an .m4 file, I always run
autoreconf -vfi
  -v, --verbose            verbosely report processing
  -f, --force              consider all files obsolete
  -i, --install            copy missing auxiliary files
It takes a little longer, but I almost never have conflict or timestamp 
problems.  Plus, it's part of the standard autotools package, and it is 
the way the autoconf/automake manuals recommend rebuilding the autotool 
files.
For some projects, this won't work (e.g. for mozldap, you have to just 
use autoconf-2.13, not autoreconf or autoreconf-2.13).
> Andrew Bartlett
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