How to regenerate the autotools files

Tue Aug 21 11:59:00 GMT 2018

On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 at 12:21, R. Diez via gcc-help <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
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> Hi there:
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> I would like to fix an annoying shortcoming in GCC's autotools scripts.
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> What commands do you use to regenerate 'configure' etc. from configure.ac and so on?

Use autoconf, but you need to use the right version as documented at
https://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html