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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