On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 23:15 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Unlike some people around on this list, these tools' upstreams know how
> to use the autotools (I am active contributor to all of them):
> Use pregenerated files, do not run the autotools while building.
The last time this came up here, I asked:
Yes, that autotools generated files are distributed in tarballs is a
clear autotools design decision. But why? Is it:
a) because the autotools maintainers feel it is unreliable to have
people building from the tarball to re-run autotools or
b) because the autotools maintainers feel it is inconvenient to
require people build from tarballs to have autotools installed
AFAICT (a) is why you advocate (as I used to also) patching the
auto-generated files.
However, perhaps things have moved on and (b) is the only real reason
these days that tarballs contain the auto-generated files?
Chers,
Mark.
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