Nice-to-have fix for autogen.sh

[Xiaofan Chen]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Segher Boessenkool
<segher at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>> 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

Nice link, thanks.

> (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 :-)

Something like this, right?
http://urjtag.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=urjtag/urjtag;a=blob;f=urjtag/autogen.sh;hb=HEAD

> But for 1.0.9 let's not switch yet.
I agree. Other than the libtool fix and the "$@" fix, let's keep the
status quo.


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Xiaofan