Re: [Audacity-devel] Rebuilding ./configure

[Rupert S. <rup...@li...>]

Matt Brubeck wrote:
> Markus Meyer wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm trying to test the patches from Andreas Neumair but I have a
>>problem regenerating ./configure via autoconf. I was under the
>>impression that it would be enough to just call autoconf, and
>>everything would be rebuilt, but this wouldn't work so I randomly
>>called autoconf, autoreconf and autoupdate in the hope that something
>>would work, but now it seems that everything is messed up complete.
> 
> 
> You probably need to run 'aclocal' before running autoconf.  (This
> imports our custom macros defined in acinclude.m4.)

That is probably correct - it's surprising that just 'autoreconf'
doesn't work - it's designed to replace those (slightly non-portable)
bootstrap.sh scripts.

If it doesn't work, check the error messages - could you have an ancient
version of autoconf/automake installed?

Rupert