Update to build.sh

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Sun Apr 6 09:48:04 PDT 2008


On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:35:51AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
>  > Johannes Engel <jcnengel at googlemail.com> writes:
>  > > Are you sure that only the existence of a file called "configure" is
>  > > enough to run this instead of autogen.sh? AFAIK some changes require a
>  > > new run of autogen.sh.
>  >
>  > Does xorg use automake?  With automake-generated Makefiles (and some
>  > non-automake generated Makefiles of course), the next make run should
>  > re-generate/re-run the configure script if necessary, so it's generally
>  > "ok" to use a slightly out-of-date configure.
>
>  It does, but note that this behaviour is only triggered if you pass
>  --enable-maintainer-mode.

BTW, what's the preferred method to properly regenerate things when
using maintainer mode?  I've yet to find a good answer.

Alex



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