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Bug 347186

Summary:	autoreconf must be rerun if configure.ac is edited
Product:	[Tools] CDT	Reporter:	Sami Wagiaalla <swagiaal>
Component:	cdt-autotools	Assignee:	Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	akurtakov, cdtdoug
Version:	8.1.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Sami Wagiaalla

2011-05-25 12:04:36 EDT

If I create a hello world autools project and add

  LT_INIT
  AC_PROG_LIBTOOL

to my configure.ac and run the build I get the following error:

  configure.ac:15: required file `./ltmain.sh' not found

running autoreconf -i solves the problem.