From 209f46ae7eb880a4ba028604ab377bf088195e43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicola Pero Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:13:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added verbose comments about rule running ./configure git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/base/trunk@14643 72102866-910b-0410-8b05-ffd578937521 --- Makefile.postamble | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/Makefile.postamble b/Makefile.postamble index 77b61b9ac..f9f52e8d0 100644 --- a/Makefile.postamble +++ b/Makefile.postamble @@ -99,6 +99,14 @@ remove-header-links: -rm -f Headers/Foundation endif +# Automatically run ./configure if needed to generate the makefiles +# which we need in order to do our job. If you need any special +# argument to ./configure, you can't rely on this rule, and you must +# always run ./configure manually. This rule is usually executed +# whenever 'make xxx' is invoked after a 'make distclean' - which is +# why we can't guess what the ./configure arguments were last time +# ./configure was called - make distclean cleans the sources +# completely, wiping out any memory of specific configuration. base.make: base.make.in ./configure