- <para>Some projects, including GHC, have their own
- configure script. If there's an
- <constant>$(FPTOOLS_TOP)/<project>/configure.ac</constant>,
- then you need to run <command>autoreconf</command> in that
- directory too.</para>
-
- <para>These steps are completely
- platform-independent; they just mean that the
- human-written file (<filename>configure.ac</filename>) can
- be short, although the resulting shell script,
- <command>configure</command>, and
- <filename>mk/config.h.in</filename>, are long.</para>
+ <para>Some projects, including GHC, have their own configure script.
+ <command>autoreconf</command> takes care of that, too, so all you have
+ to do is calling <command>autoreconf</command> in the top-level directory
+ <constant>$(FPTOOLS_TOP)</constant>.</para>
+
+ <para>These steps are completely platform-independent; they just mean
+ that the human-written files (<filename>configure.ac</filename> and
+ <filename>aclocal.m4</filename>) can be short, although the resulting
+ files (the <command>configure</command> shell scripts and the C header
+ template <filename>mk/config.h.in</filename>) are long.</para>