Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: The question about automake Author: eystein Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,16783,16790#msg-16790
automake generates Makefile.in from Makefile.am autoconf generates configure from configure.ac and Makefile from Makefile.in. Thus, if you touch Makefile.am or configure.ac (modify them/update their date stamp), you'll need to run autoconf/automake. This might happen for a variety of reasons, such as updated Cfengine version number in configure.ac. It is less likely to happen with the released tarballs than the code in svn. Automake is not guaranteed to be compatible across versions, and the Cfengine developers use version 1.10, that's why you have to pick 1.10. I recommend just getting the required tools and let them do their magic, as they are quite tricky to understand completely. They are small and simple to configure and install (to e.g. /opt/build), and you'll get them at any GNU mirror site. If you still want to know, there are plenty of docs about the tools online. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
