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autogen.sh doesn't update stale autoconf files in build-aux

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17258: closed (autogen.sh doesn't update stale autoconf files
 in build-aux)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 05:46:02 +0000

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Your message dated Sun, 13 Apr 2014 22:45:15 -0700
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and subject line Re: autogen.sh doesn't update stale autoconf files in build-aux
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #17258,
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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: autogen.sh doesn't update stale autoconf files in build-aux
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:17:16 +0200

While troubleshooting a problem with configure on my system, I found
that autogen.sh never updated these autoconf files in build-aux, so they
were still the same as when they had been generated/copied three years
ago:

build-aux/compile
build-aux/config.guess
build-aux/config.sub
build-aux/install-sh
build-aux/missing
build-aux/depcomp

Apparently these files are just checked for existence unless the
"--force" option is also given (which autogen.sh doesn't do).  I'm
currently using autoconf 2.69 if that matters.


Regards,
Achim.
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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 17258-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: autogen.sh doesn't update stale autoconf files in build-aux
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 22:45:15 -0700

In trunk bzr 116975 I changed autogen.sh to use autoreconf's -f option, 
which should fix the bug.  -f won't hurt in the typical case when 
autogen.sh is being invoked in freshly checked-out sources, and might 
help in cases where autoreconf itself has been upgraded.

GNU make should do this automatically when things go well, but there are 
a lot of reasons timestamps can be messed up in a source tree and 
autogen.sh should try to be helpful when recovering from such problems.

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