[Xastir-dev] Version 1.5.1

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 07:34:31PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <nielsen at oz.net> flavor, containing:
> This is strange--I did a CVS update, than ran ./configure and it
> reported as version 1.4.2.  I then did 'make clean' and it reran
> configure but this time it said 1.5.1.  What happened?

When you updated and ./configured, you hadn't rebuilt configure from 
configure.ac with automake/autoconf.  So it still had 1.4.2 in there.

When you did your make and it ran configure for you, it ran 
aclocal/automake/autoconf for you first, and picked up the new version number.  

The version number is set in configure.ac, and doesn't make it to the 
Makefiles until configure is rebuilt first.

When you update xastir from CVS, if any of the autotool input has changed
you should run bootstrap.sh first.  autotool input includes acinclude.m4, 
configure.ac, and all of the Makefile.am's

A safe thing to do every time you cvs update is to run bootstrap.sh.  

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