On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 02:24 PM, John Morrow wrote:
That did it. Went through configure, make and make install-strip.
Thanks a lot. Now could you please briefly explain to a newbie what the
touch command did?

The touch command sets the modification date/time of a file (or, in this case, all files in the directory) to the current date/time. Autoconf/automake compare timestamps on the various files to determine whether any of them need to be rebuilt (if the file X is used to create file Y, and X is newer than Y, then Y should be rebuilt). I'm still getting up to speed on it myself (like which files create each other file), but have found that the touch trick works great.


Fixing the autoconf/automake related files is on the fix list, and Jeff Hedlund has made good progress on it. He was able to fix a lot of the problems, and those changes will be added to the 1.0.21 release.

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Tom Collins
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