On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 16:46, Bruno Haible <bruno@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This patch is already in Gnulib since 2020-12-09. But when people > run 'autoreconf' on an existing released tarball, they are effectively > combining an older Gnulib with a newest Autoconf. > > Why do people do that? The point of tarballs is that you can run > './configure' right away. > > If people want to modify the build infrastructure, it would often be > more reasonable to start off the git repository of the package (possibly > from a specific release tag or release branch). Because it’s not uncommon to need newer config.status, or updated m4 files, or to patch Makefile.am or configure.ac. Ross >
