Regarding ./configure file

Juan Lang juan.lang at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 12:57:21 CST 2008


> Isn't all the configuration done via ./tools/make_makefiles ?

No, not all.

> I thought that if you want to add anything to wine you:
>
> 1 - simply add it to git
> 2 - ./tools/make_makefiles
> 3 - autoconf
> 4 - ./configure
> 5 - make depend && make
>
> Is this wrong?

Yes.  On occasion we need to add or improve checks for different
libraries.  tools/make_makefiles is used to add new code to Wine,
configure.ac is modified to add new configure checks.

The use of configure.ac is well-described on the GNU autoconf page.
--Juan



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