Hi everybody. Just my two cents about this matter ... On Saturday 22 October 2011, Bruno Haible wrote: > 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 Running the (potentially) outdated configure, to build a (potentially) 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 outdated Makefile, which may very well rerun aclocal, automake, autoconf 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 -"- -"- > At this point, wouldn't it be simpler (and maybe safer) to clone the git repository in a new directory, and simply do "./bootstrap && ./configure" from there?
Regards (and sorry if I'm missing something obvious), Stefano
