how to develop new target-specific library - autoconf?

[Alexandre Oliva]

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whenever it appears to be out-of-date.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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