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 based on the out-of-date-ness of the base 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. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make