Re: On aclocal.m4

Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@docs.uu.se>

From: Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@DoCS.UU.SE>

To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2000-06-13T12:41:33Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> As things stood over the weekend, even just pulling from CVS required
> automake, since aclocal.m4 may or may not get a newer timestamp than
> the config/*.m4 files.  I temporarily diked out the toplevel make
> dependencies that tried to update aclocal.m4, but the issue needs
> discussion.

As I mentioned to you off-list, if it actually invoked aclocal when there
was none, then that's a bug. Configure should put out a line `checking for
working aclocal|autoconf... missing|found'.

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