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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use automake (v5)
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:00:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <62ca4187-f798-38b3-f5dd-b3844b99fcf5@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd2be414-edd1-5502-050a-ecaaa5920db5@cornell.edu>

On 4/27/2021 12:52 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 4/27/2021 11:50 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 20/04/2021 21:13, Jon Turney wrote:
>>> For ease of reviewing, this patch doesn't contain changes to generated
>>> files which would be made by running ./autogen.sh.
>>   I pushed this patch.
>>
>> If you have an existing build directory, while you might get away with 
>> invoking 'make' at the top-level, I would recommend blowing it away and 
>> configuring again.
> 
> I'm confused about how the generated files are going to get regenerated when 
> necessary.  I see calls to autogen (which I guess is /usr/bin/autogen.exe from 
> the autogen package) in the Makefiles, but I don't see any calls to autogen.sh. 
> Is the latter no longer needed?

Oh, never mind.  The Makefiles just call autoconf, etc., as needed.

Ken

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-27 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-20 20:13 Jon Turney
2021-04-20 20:15 ` Jon Turney
2021-04-21 16:40   ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-04-22 11:57     ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-04-26 15:03       ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-04-27 15:54         ` Jon Turney
2021-04-27 15:50 ` Jon Turney
2021-04-27 16:52   ` Ken Brown
2021-04-27 17:00     ` Ken Brown [this message]
2021-04-27 18:32       ` Jon Turney
2021-05-02 15:28 ` Jon Turney
2021-05-02 18:25   ` Brian Inglis
2021-05-03 10:40     ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-05-03 10:43   ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-05-04 18:12     ` Jon Turney

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