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Autotools
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Autotools

by John Calcote
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
360 pages
11h 12m
English
No Starch Press
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Maintainer Mode

Occasionally, timestamps on distribution source files will be newer than the current time setting of a user's system clock. Regardless of the cause, this inconsistency confuses make, causing it to think that every source file is out of date and needs to be rebuilt. As a result, it will re-execute the Autotools in an attempt to bring configure and the Makefile.in templates up to date. But as maintainers, we don't really expect our users to have the Autotools installed—or at least not the latest versions that we've installed on our systems.

This is where Automake's maintainer mode comes in. By default, Automake adds rules to makefiles that regenerate template files, configuration scripts, and generated sources from maintainer source ...

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