Re: bbconf 1.0 is released.

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 17-Sep-2001 Jason Kasper wrote:
> I wholeheartedly agree.  If anyone can shed light on this annoyance (and
> enlighten me in the process), I'd be rather grateful.  
> 
> ./configure should ONLY do that--configure what's already been
> automake'd, autoconf'd, and "perl admin/am_edit"'d.  Why it insists on
> doing it over and over and over again purely annoys the snot out of me.  
> 
> Anyone have any magic or level of clue greater than mine into the dark,
> mystical world of auto* on what potions I need to conjure, dark wibble
> dances I need to dance or otherwise to get rid of this bothersome habit?
> 

My guess is the admin/ magic with configure.in.in files.  This causes
configure.in to change and this causes make to believe the autotools need to be
re-run.

Why on earth the kde tool wants to make this so unbelievably complicated is
beyond me.  I hope to understand autotools better in the coming week(s) and
hopefully will be able to stear people better.