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Re: how to develop new target-specific library - autoconf?
- To: "Gary Funck" <gary at Intrepid dot Com>
- Subject: Re: how to develop new target-specific library - autoconf?
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 23 Jun 2001 04:24:42 -0300
- Cc: "GCC Help" <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <DOEPLHFPMCACAGIAHNCHGECMCAAA.gary@intrepid.com>
On Jun 22, 2001, "Gary Funck" <gary@Intrepid.Com> wrote:
> My question: in general, does a GCC developer need to manually invoke
> autoconf, when developing a new target-specific library?
Yep, at least for the first time. If you use automake too, it will
put rules in the Makefiles to rebuild configure from configure.in
whenever it appears to be out-of-date. But in general it's best to
run it yourself.
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