Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

[Phil Edwards]

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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