Actually, after digging into the black arts of auto*, I can say that
it's automake that is doing this. If you take a very simple Makefile.am
and run automake against it, automake will happily generate a
Makefile.in that knows how to rebuild config.h, configure, Makefile,
Makefile.am, and Makefile.in. Why, I have NO bloody idea.
My solution in bbconf is to use a quick perl regexp to strip all this
garbage out of every Makefile.in before configure is run against it to create
the Makefiles. The end result (be it the correct path or not I don't
know) is that make has absolutely no clue on how to create config.h,
configure, Makefiles, or anything else that it shouldn't. The regexp is
as follows...
$MakefileData =~ s/SUFFIXES.*mostlyclean-hdr:\n/SUFFIXES:\n\nmostlyclean-hdr:\n/sg;
... and seems to work well enough.
My question (for the 2 millionth time in the last 10 days) is why, oh
why, oh why, does automake think it needs to tell "make" how to rebuild
the things that are telling "make" what to "make"?
Anywho, the bug is fixed in bbconf. I'd just like to understand the
logic behind it being put there from "automake" in the first place.
*poof*
* [09/17/01 02:09] Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world,
* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> walks into mine and says:
> On 17-Sep-2001 Jason Kasper wrote:
> > I wholeheartedly agree. If anyone can shed light on this annoyance (and
> > enlighten me in the process), I'd be rather grateful.
> >
> > ./configure should ONLY do that--configure what's already been
> > automake'd, autoconf'd, and "perl admin/am_edit"'d. Why it insists on
> > doing it over and over and over again purely annoys the snot out of me.
> >
> > Anyone have any magic or level of clue greater than mine into the dark,
> > mystical world of auto* on what potions I need to conjure, dark wibble
> > dances I need to dance or otherwise to get rid of this bothersome habit?
> >
>
> My guess is the admin/ magic with configure.in.in files. This causes
> configure.in to change and this causes make to believe the autotools need to be
> re-run.
>
> Why on earth the kde tool wants to make this so unbelievably complicated is
> beyond me. I hope to understand autotools better in the coming week(s) and
> hopefully will be able to stear people better.
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