On Thu, Aug 17, 2023, at 9:13 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2023, Gavin Smith wrote: >> >> Is there any consistency in naming across different packages, i.e. >> is "bootstrap" the most widely used name? > > No, there is no consistency across different packages. If this was > part of the GNU coding standards then perhaps actual GNU projects > might be convinced to use a standard name. But most consumers of > Autoconf are not GNU projects. On a related note, I had thought the very long term plan was to make it so most projects only needed to run `autoreconf -i` before `configure` when building from a VCS checkout. That "most" can't ever be "all", because there will always be weird special cases -- look at Autoconf and Automake themselves -- but I can at least *imagine* a world in which *only* Autoconf and Automake themselves are weird special cases. What are the most common things people need to do in a "bootstrap" script that *aren't* covered by `autoreconf -i`? zw
