Update autogen.sh #1531
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It is handled by autoreconf. The autoconf manual says: "aclocal is expected to disappear. This feature really should not be offered by Automake." And then it says "... never call aclocal yourself." Also remove the special Cygwin setting of '-I m4'.
On MacOS, autoreconf is supposed to call glibtoolize if exists (to be validated later).
It is invoked by autoreconf.
It is invoked by autoreconf,
The code to keep the old configure script was taken from Subversion's autogen.sh, but somehow only the first half of the code was used, making it pointless. Add the second half of the code that removes config.cache if the configure script has been changed.
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Remove the calls to
aclocal,libtoolize,autoconf, andautomake, which became unneeded after the recent addition ofautoreconftoautogen.sh(PR #1516, see also issue #1492).On the same occasion:
perlwithsed.But is this check needed anymore since version 1.4 is ancient?
config.cacheif needed.The "original"
autogen.shcontains only the first half of the code to removeconfig.cachewhenconfigurechanges.Add the second half of the code that removes
config.cacheif needed.The Autoconf system is careful to prefix its messages with the program name. Do so for the messages here, too, so their source is clear.
Stale or corrupted caches may cause mysterious problems. Add an option to start from a clean state.
Insist that
autogen.shis invoked from the top-level directory.I checked it on MacOS (old system - 11.6.2), Cygwin, MinGW64, and Linux.
On MinGW64,
configuredoesn't have an x bit. Instead of changingautogen.sh, I changedREADME-MinGW64.md.