On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Akim Demaille wrote: > > > But beware, autoreconf can be dangerous and doesn't always work. > > Why?
In times past, it has trashed & thrashed subdirectories. For example, I recall (a couple of years ago) that libltdl required a particular version of Autoconf. Libltdl was subordinate to my package's directory. Executing autoreconf ended up with a zero-length configure script in the libltdl subdirectory. It seems that autoreconf behaves better in current releases, but as we know, older autoconf's are difficult to get rid of so it is likely that troubled autoreconf's are still in active use. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
