Macports's buggy configure scripts

Anders F Björklund afb at macports.org
Sun May 11 23:19:25 PDT 2008


Landon Fuller wrote:

>> Not sure why that doesn't use autoconf, but instead a sed hack.
>
> To solve the opposite problem -- if you change the source file,  
> 'make' should remake it. See:
> 	http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/ 
> autoconf.html#Installation-Directory-Variables

Right, thanks for explaining the issue. Probably easier when also  
using automake.

> If re-running configure should also cause any files to be  
> regenerated, then another 'make' dependency is probably in order.

Yeah, since it was just three seds the easiest was to just regenerate  
them always.

--anders



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