-# We don't recurse into the library packages with autoreconf anymore, so we
-# have to do this manually. To avoid a strict dependency on autoreconf, we
-# are careful to call autoreconf only when configure does not exist yet or the
-# corresponding configure.ac is newer. This would be dead easy if every shell
-# supported the "-nt" option for "test", but this is not the case. The only
-# portable solution seems to be via find's "-newer" option or to basically give
-# up and replace find with perl: :-P
-#
-# perl -e 'print "configure.ac\n" if -M "configure.ac" < -M "configure"'
-for dir in . libraries/*; do
- if test -f $dir/configure.ac; then
- ( cd $dir ; { test ! -f configure || test -n "`find configure.ac -newer configure`"; } && autoreconf )
- fi
+# autoreconf everything that needs it.
+for dir in . libraries/*
+do
+ if test -f $dir/configure.ac
+ then
+ echo "Booting $dir"
+ ( cd $dir && autoreconf )
+ fi