Nice-to-have fix for autogen.sh

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Feb 1 11:21:44 EST 2012


> It seems to me that those with the name "bootstrap" usually does
> not run configure.

Right.  Also see http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/ 
autobook_43.html
(which is totally dated, but the discussion is still relevant).

http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/ 
autoconf-2.68/html_node/autoreconf-Invocation.html

(for libusbx, the first time run   mkdir m4 && autoreconf -i ).
(the -Wall option has quite a lot to say as well, if anyone wants
a nice little project...)

> In the end, I think projects use both options. So it is probably
> okay both way.

Sure, both work fine, that's not the question.

I think we should switch our autogen.sh to use autoreconf; people
who do not like the run-configure-automatically will then of course
be more likely to run autoreconf by hand, and people who do want
to run configure can use autogen.sh .  Everyone happy :-)

But for 1.0.9 let's not switch yet.


Segher




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