-# 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/aclocal.m4 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 -L configure.ac -newer configure`" || (test -f aclocal.m4 && test -n "`find -L aclocal.m4 -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