On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 22:03 -0800, Peter Gordon wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 06:54 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > Rubbish - Running the autotools modifies a package's source code. > > Incorrect. Invoking autotools modifies the package's build scripts, not > source code. There is a significant difference. With all due respect, you could not be much wronger. auto* generated files are not supposed to be dynamically modified nor are they designed to be dynamically modified. That's the reason why they are part of source tarballs. >From a practical aspect: Running incompatibles version of the autotools during builds can break a package. Esp. GNOME and GTK packages are famous suffer from such defects, because many of do not comply to modern auto* tool's standards. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
