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Subject: RE: bz2lib autoconfiguration ??
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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:27:38 +1000
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Thread-Topic: bz2lib autoconfiguration ??
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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AFAIK it's by design.

Adding new subdirs with separate packages typically involves a new
distribution. 

The --norecurse is to prevent changes to configure.[in|ac] at the top of
a set of related packages forcing reconfiguration for the sub-packages.
This has the side effect of not configuring added packages.
 
Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 12:24 PM
> To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: bz2lib autoconfiguration ??
> 
> 
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:32:30PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:13:55PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > >> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:07:43PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > >> >> >Hmm...
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >make clean && make
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >This doesn't create the configuration needed for
> > >> >> >i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/bz2lib. :(
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Do you have the latest CVS version?
> > >> >
> > >> >Yes!
> > >>
> > >> And, you reconfigured?
> > >>
> > >
> > >Hmm...  No, I thought that that should happen via 
> dependency checking.
> > >Makefile.in changes so reconfiguration should happen and 
> create the new
> > >directory and perform configuration for it.
> > >
> > >I'm I just dreaming or is this the way it should happen?
> > 
> > I don't know.  The mechanism in winsup/Makefile.in is similar to
> > a lot of Makefile.in's in the repository.  They invoke
> > 
> > config.status --recheck
> > 
> > when configure changes.  This will rerun configure but it 
> does so with
> > the '--no-recursion' switch which seems to avoid creating new
> > directories.
> > 
> > I don't know if this is by accident or by design, though.
> > 
> 
> Could you ask Alexandre?  If not I'll see what I can find from the
> autoconf archives.
> 
> Earnie.
> 
> 
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