----- "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > * start discouraging shipping pregenerated files, instead make sure that > autoreconf actually works (which mainly amounts to the above point about > backwards compatibility). > But unfortunately, this won't solve the problem of the reliance on the shell, > and as configure.ac scripts can contain arbitrary shell snippets, this can't > really be fixed without a major redesign, the result of which would effectively > no longer be autotools. I would add: * do not start new projects using autotools as far as possible -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list