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Bug 191 - CVS build system should rebuild configure
Summary: CVS build system should rebuild configure
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SDL
Classification: Unclassified
Component: build (show other bugs)
Version: HG 1.2
Hardware: All Other
: P2 enhancement
Assignee: Ryan C. Gordon
QA Contact: Sam Lantinga
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Reported: 2006-04-01 21:15 UTC by Max Horn
Modified: 2006-04-13 09:25 UTC (History)
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Description Max Horn 2006-04-01 21:15:20 UTC 
One thing that was lost in the switch from automake to the new build system is that there is now no rule to build configure from configure.in.

IMHO, if configure.in gets changed, then at the very least, the build system should print out a warning (better, again IMHO, an error) about this fact. Else, you easily forget about this when modifying configure.in.

The better solution would be to automatically invoke ./autogen.sh (or equivalent commands) when this is detected, and then re-run configure (I believe for the latter, one just needs to invoke config.status, which records the env / params of the original configure invocation).
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2006-04-13 09:25:17 UTC 
I added a warning, since usually I don't want to rebuild the entire project when I'm tweaking configure.in