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2.1.4 Autoreconf: why you don't need to know about aclocal

You don't have to know anything very much about autoreconf, other than that, if you change one of the autotools files Makefile.am or configure.ac., you should probably run autoreconf to bring everything up to date. In fact, you probably don't even need that, since the generated makefiles have these dependencies explicit. The problem that autoreconf addresses is that when one of these files is updated, there are several commands which might need to be re-run, including aclocal, autoheader, libtoolize and others, and it's a headache trying to remember which ones are which.


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The Starlink Build System
Starlink System Note 78
Norman Gray, Peter W Draper, Mark B Taylor, Steven E Rankin
11 April 2005. Release snapshot: $Revision: 1.116 $. Last updated 28 May 2006