Re: Autoreconfing guide
On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:
> > Indeed. In most cases, there will be a shell script somewhere (one of
> > the usual names is "autogen.sh") that will call autoreconf with the
> > appropriate options.
>
> Be careful of those scripts. Often they do other things that you don't
> actually want done, and they don't always regenerate everything.
True. At some point you have no choice but to either pester upstream, or
document in README.source the stuff that needs to be verified manually at
every new upstream release :-(
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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