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Re: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- To: Dan Kegel <dkegel at ixiacom dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:54:55 -0400
- Subject: Re: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]
- References: <3EDB9C16.3070704@ixiacom.com>
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:48:54AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
> Also, can you address whether and how to regenerate */aclocal.m4?
> I have a feeling those are hand-generated only now, and
> using any version of automake's aclocal command to generate them
> is an error, but I don't have evidence to back this up.
Not exactly.
if <an acinclude.m4 file exists>
then
<automake is being used; use aclocal(1) to generate aclocal.m4,
which will contain acinclude.m4 plus things needed by automake>
else
<only autoconf is being used; aclocal.m4 is written (not generated)
by hand>
endif
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