[Build-common-hackers] change to autotools-vars.mk

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 09:44, Jeff Bailey wrote:

> I'm fine with the change, although we should notify everyone using cdbs
> and give them some time to change their scripts if they're above.

This is already done; I think we have 3 bugs remaining.

> The tarball variable still needs to be set above.  The only things I can
> think of is to write in the autodetection so that the common case needs
> nothing.  I still need the
> every-target-runs-this-before-even-thinking-about-anything:: rule for
> that, though (so that the variables can get set, and a recursive make
> called).

Yeah...couldn't we just have a pre-run:: or something that both
pre-build and clean would depend on?