GNU bug report logs - #17258
autogen.sh doesn't update stale autoconf files in build-aux

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Reported by: Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de>

Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 17258-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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.
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 39 days ago.

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