"Zack Weinberg" <zack@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > What are the most common things people need to do in a "bootstrap" > script that *aren't* covered by `autoreconf -i`? I'm not sure if this is the correct thing for me to do, but for years I've used the bootstrap script to do any pre-generation of files that I ship with the distribution tarball to reduce the required build dependencies. Running autoreconf -i is an important subset of that, but it also includes, for example, pre-generating man pages from POD source and generating input data for the test suite that relies on tools the typical user may not have locally. -- Russ Allbery (eagle@xxxxxxxxx) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
