> > AFAIK they are very rarely used. One of autoconf's design goals is to > not be needed from the dist tarball. I don't think automake makes this > same guarantee but it makes an attempt. automake makes exactly the same guarantee. It is in perl, and perl isn't meant to be in all the environments. autoconf/automake dist should require only sh, make and basic unix commands. -- Pat -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly