[Xastir-dev] Version 1.5.1

[Bob Nielsen]

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 20:53 -0600, Tom Russo wrote:
> 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.  
> 
Thanks for the explanation.  

Bob