On Jan 16 2018, Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> wrote:

> The automake generated makefiles know how to rebuild Makefile.in,
> Makefile, configure, etc. based on the out-of-date-ness of the base
> files such as configure.ac and Makefile.am.  So if those files are
> updated, then the makefile will attempt to re-run those tools and
> regenerate their output.  This fails if you don't have them installed.

If you use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE then this rebuild will only happen when
configured with --enable-maintainer-mode.

Andreas.

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