Hi Jim, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > >> Running the (potentially) outdated configure, to build a (potentially) > >> outdated Makefile, which may very well rerun aclocal, automake, autoconf > >> etc just to call the maintainer-clean rule, and then blow it all away > >> in the next step with a bootstrap seems odd and torturous to me. > > > > The above may be a little wasteful. But it is reliable and turn-key. > > No it isn't.
I'm with Gary on this point. How about these steps? make -k maintainer-clean # Clean up previous build artefacts ./configure make maintainer-clean # Clean up previous build artefacts git checkout master git pull origin master # don't try (perhaps fail) to pull other branches ./bootstrap # rerun autotools explicitly on latest sources ./configure # regenerate Makefile explicitly -"- -"- Doing the "make maintainer-clean" with the old Makefiles is the most reliable you can do. Now this sequence takes a little more time than what you proposed, Jim. But it's only needed once before the release. You don't object to the time it takes to run "make distcheck" either. Bruno -- In memoriam Nunilo and Alodia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunilo_and_Alodia>
