Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 22:03 -0800, Peter Gordon wrote: >> 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. No, the reason why they are part of source tarballs is that traditionally tarball-makers haven't wanted to assume that users will have autotools installed. > From a practical aspect: > Running incompatibles version of the autotools during builds can break > a package. Certainly true. On the other hand, *not* rebuilding the scripts can also break a package, particularly with respect to libtool, IME. It's a case-by-case issue, and so I see any sort of generalized opinionating about it as fundamentally misguided. I do a forced automake/libtoolize/autoconf for some of my packages, and not others. regards, tom lane -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
