Hi Milo, > The GNU coding standards recommend that files generated by yacc/bison or > flex are shipped with the tarball and should therefore not be generated > during the build; this obviously also applies to automake and autoconf. > > Things change when you need to patch the source files and regenerate the > rebuilt files, but that should not be the common case :) Well, actually it is common practice. About half of the rpms I built in the last few days use automake and/or autoconf. It is obvious the GNU coding standards do not have much bearing on Red Hat/Fedora practice with regard to building rpms. Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research
