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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2012-09-09 18:03:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2012-09-09 18:03:27 -0700 |
| commit | b8b0239fd0485002d1c761067c9047d1f26dbd4c (patch) | |
| tree | fe258a2d99658a0fc300e6c70f1456be436537c8 /README | |
| parent | 3231d532c7e6c3ed0a2e58574bec5518404a7f82 (diff) | |
Improve robustness of 'make bootstrap'.
Run autogen.sh after bootstrap-clean, to avoid bzr pull issues.
* INSTALL, README: Document autogen.sh.
* Makefile.in (Makefile): Mark it as precious, since it's updated
atomically.
(MAKE_CONFIG_STATUS): New macro.
(config.status, bootstrap): Use it. This causes 'make bootstrap'
to run config.status with the --recheck option, which is more
appropriate for a bootstrap.
(bootstrap): Run autogen.sh right after cleaning. Don't worry
about failures due to missing tools.
* autogen.sh: Exit with status 101 when failing due to missing tools.
* make-dist: Distribute autogen.sh.
Fixes: debbugs:12376
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -41,9 +41,14 @@ The file `configure.ac' is the input used by the autoconf program to construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has some configuration requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical reasons, `configure.ac' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked -configuration code and autoconf macros. If you want to rebuild -`configure' from `configure.ac', you will need to install a recent -version of autoconf and GNU m4. +configuration code and autoconf macros. + +The shell script `autogen.sh' generates 'configure' and other files by +running the GNU build tools autoconf and automake, which in turn use +GNU m4 and Perl. If you want to use it, you will need to install +recent versions of these build tools. This should be needed only if +you edit files like `configure.ac' that specify Emacs's autobuild +procedure. The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create `Makefile'. |