finding autotools during configure (was: Re: also: ploticus vs pl ...)

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:59:59AM +0100, Joost van Baal wrote:
> BTW: when building from a Lire tarball, none of these tools are
> required.  Forcing a run of aclocal[-1.4], autoconf or automake[-1.4]
> when building from a tarball is wrong.  Things might break miserably,
> fixing these issues after the fact is a guaranteed to cause a major
> PITA.  Just run, from an unpacked tarball,

They are needed if you change something in the configure.in-script,
like modifying it because your system has pl instead of ploticus
and not knowing about the PATHTOPLOTICUS command.

Edwin

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