On 03/10/2010 12:09:58 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> > But how is it then that Alon does not run ./configure
> > on machine 2 above?
>
> The fact is that I believe he does run ./configure on all machines.
> Autotools just generates a set up files which is not depending on
> anything else than basic *nix tools, like shell, grep, sed, etc, etc.
Right. This I've always gotten.
>
> But to be able to make the tarball via 'make dist', you need to run
> ./configure first to have a Makefile which knows what the 'dist' rule
> is. Then the 'dist' rule wraps it all together into a autotools
> independent tarball, including a prepared ./configure script.
Ok. Thanks. This is what threw me off. I was mistaking
this for executing ./configure on the dist tarball.
Karl <k...@meme.com>
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