From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 17:35:01 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: README-hacking: re-configure from scratch during bootstrap.
X-Git-Tag: v2.69b~27
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2d06297bd550a0015f3ccedda9f43d7c616cfaf8;p=thirdparty%2Fautoconf.git

README-hacking: re-configure from scratch during bootstrap.

When building autoconf from a git checkout, recommend running
‘make distclean’ and a second ‘./configure’ after regenerating
autoconf’s own configure script using the just-built autoconf.
If one only runs ‘make check’ at that point, some configure-time
tests will not be repeated using the new code, such as detection
of a “better” shell.
---

diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
index abf841b9..ab1cf679 100644
--- a/README-hacking
+++ b/README-hacking
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ generated files are regenerated using the tools just built by "make"
   $ ./configure
   $ make
   $ ( PATH=`pwd`/tests:$PATH; autoreconf -vi )
+  $ make distclean
+  $ ./configure
   $ make check
 
 At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy,