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Re: Calling other external Makefiles and outside Make systems
- From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple dot dallas dot tx dot us>
- To: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf dot Wildenhues at gmx dot de>
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:03:56 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: Calling other external Makefiles and outside Make systems
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> > I don't understand this. If a third-party package uses an
> > auxiliary script, say install-sh, then that third-party package
> > already contains install-sh and does not care about the parent's
> > auxdir. Am I missing something? What kind of adaptation do you
> > want to avoid passing AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR?
>
> Oh, yes, you're right. braino, sorry. This one is not about
> not changing the subpackage, but about saving space in the combined
> package. After all, auxiliary scripts with the same name are supposed
> to be identical, right?
That would be a very poor assumption. Scripts with the same name may
output different values. For example, an older config.guess script
may output a different host tripplet for the same OS than a newer
config.guess, and the version of tools used in the subdirectory key
off this older host tripplet. They would misbehave if they were
directed to use the newer config.guess.
Bob
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