Re: Makefile broken (fwd)

[Lloyd Lim <lim@bmrc.berkeley.edu>]

>Is the configure file generated from configure.in and the conf
>directory?  If so, why is it in CVS and not just generated?

configure is supposed to be distributed with source.  This is
the normal procedure.  People are not supposed to need autoconf.

To clarify the process:

Project managers/release managers/trusted developers run autoconf,
which reads configure.in and generates configure.

Everyone working with source runs configure, which reads Makefile.in
and generates Makefile, which compiles everything.

The lines get a little blurry with open source, but you can
distinguish it this way:  You only run autoconf if you mess with
configure.in or anything in mash-1/conf.

Lloyd