Automake question

[Pavel Sanda]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 03:46:48PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 10:44:59PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote:  
> > > > > And before you ask, here the full sequence
> > > > > 	$ cd source
> > > > > 	$ ./autogen.sh    
> > > > 
> > > > These two commands below look strange to me in the sense that I would not expect
> > > > autogen to update anything in build directory   
> > > 
> > > Why strange? 'cd source' means 'cd to lyx-source-dir'
> > > And ./autogen.sh creates 'configure' and all 'Makefile.in' files (in the source
> > > directory)  
> > 
> > I was talking about the commands *below*... P
> > 
> > > > > 	$ cd build
> > > > > 	$ source/configure ....
> > > > > 	$ make all
> > > > > 	$ make install -n | egrep abcd    
> > > > P  
> > > 
> > > 	Kornel  
> 
> Sorry.
> 'build' is some build-directory outside of 'source'
> 
> 'source/configure ...'? '...' represents the rest of command line arguments, in

Critically the exact script call is missing, but my guess was that you run
source/build/configure ...
but autogen updates only
source/configure

Pavel