Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 10:34:22PM CEST: ... >> The only reason to invoke $(ACLOCAL) $(ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS) here is if >> some important piece has just been added or modified in configure.ac >> or m4/m4.m4, yet the user has not run any other make command. > > Well, it's recorded in aclocal.m4 which autoconf version was used when > generating aclocal.m4 (remember aclocal and automake may call autom4te > behind the scenes). So it would be nice to have the version string > match there, too, to avoid needless warnings. > > Maybe we should override in Autoconf the rules to regenerate aclocal.m4, > configure, and Makefile.in, so they prepend $(top_builddir)/tests to > PATH, so the right rebuilding is done. FWIW, the Automake package does > something similar.
I've gone ahead and used autoreconf and pushed the patches. I think I've addressed all of your concerns. Thanks for the feedback.
