On Mar 25, 2010, at 7:10 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Thursday 25 March 2010, Colin Law wrote: >> >> For the future how do I know when I need to do autogen and/or >> configure? Is it best just to do a full build including those any >> time I pull from the repository? >> > Here are my rough guidelines: > > You will have to rerun autogen.sh if: > a. configure.in has changed > b. any of the *.m4 files in macros has changed > b. any of the *.m4 macro files changes on your system, which can happen for > example if you install newer development libraries > > You will have to rerun configure if > a. you reran autogen.sh > b. any of the Makefile.am files has been updated >
You need to run autogen.sh if a Makefile.am is changed. Autogen runs automake which makes Makefile.in from Makefile.am; configure uses Makefile.in, not Makefile.am, for input to create Makefile. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
