Kuba Ober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I'm not too much of an autotool expert, but I'm actually wondering why this
>> autogen.sh script is still used. Why can't the regular Makefile do the
>> same, by simply adding the required dependencies?
>> For example, why not having in the Makefile something like:
>
| Because there's no Makefile in the distribution (it's a file generated by the
| autotools' generated configure :-), and it would be *bad* to have it
| distributed just so that autotools could work.
>
| Alas, there can be something like Makefile.auto which would be fixed and not
| auto-generated. Then autogen.sh could just be
>
| #!/bin/sh
| exec make -f Makefile.auto
autogen script is only needed for CVS users, it is used to create the
configure script.
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Lgb
