Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hm, I wonder whether the reason the OP ran into trouble was that he
>> followed that guide :-(. Relying on manual invocation of configure
>> is a sure recipe for hitting weird breakage anytime somebody changes
>> the configure input files ... Surely there's a way to teach Eclipse
>> to do that when needed?
> Is this really a problem? I think our makefiles are set up such that
> they will re-run configure in some of its input files have changed.
I believe they will re-run config.status to regenerate the output
files. This is not the same thing as re-running the configure script.
regards, tom lane