[Bf-committers] a FreeBSD bootstrap run

[Frederick Lee]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:28:43AM -0600, Kent Mein wrote:
> In reply to Hans Lambermont (hans@lambermont.dyndns.org):
> > 
> >     Running autoconf ...
> >     configure.ac:174: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or m4_bpatsubst
> >     configure.ac:362: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp
> > 
> > Are these m4 complaints valid, or is my m4 not GNUish enough ?
> > 
> > bootstrap generates the Makefile.in's and heavily modifies aclocal.m4
> > (another cvs delete candidate ?)
> 
> the aclocal.m4 I believe it rebuilds it using itself as input, (I could
> be wrong here, but I think removing it would give us problems)

No it won't; aclocal generates aclocal.m4.

> 
> > 
> > I see bootstrap generates the Makefiles in the source dirs, this breaks
> > multi-OS NFS builds. Is that what we want ?
> > 
> 
> the makefiles do not get touched(at least on the systems I've used)
> the Makefile.in's are platform independant bootstrap should not affect 
> platform dependancy at all.  (The one thing that still needs to be done
> for this is fixup the freeze stuff so that it does not build stuff
> in the source dir.

Makefile.am --(automake)--> Makefile.in --(configure)--> Makefile

I fail to see how the makefiles don't get touched.

> 
> Kent
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-Fred <phaethon>