Re: missing --run/not run

2003-08-31 Thread Norman Gray
Greetings, Following up on my previous message. On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 10:56 PM, Norman Gray wrote: The problem is, of course, the `missing' script, and what happens when a checked-out generated file apparently needs to be rebuilt on a developer's machine. [...] There seems to be

Re: missing --run/not run

2003-08-31 Thread Norman Gray
Greetings, On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 23:39:09 +0100, Paul Brook wrote: We as a project have decided to go the route of checking autotool-generated files into our CVS repository, and as a result are discovering the full subtleties of the consequences of that, in I suffered similar problems until I

missing --run/not run

2003-08-29 Thread Norman Gray
machine. The `missing --run' mechanism works fine when the locally-installed autoconf is sufficiently up-to-date to work, and also when there is _no_ autoconf installed, however it can fail if there _is_ a local autoconf, but it is too old to process the configure.{in,ac} file correctly. One

Re: missing --run/not run

2003-08-29 Thread Paul Brook
On Friday 29 August 2003 10:56 pm, Norman Gray wrote: Greetings, We as a project have decided to go the route of checking autotool-generated files into our CVS repository, and as a result are discovering the full subtleties of the consequences of that, in particular the issues concerning