Matt Zimmerman wrote: > If autoconf is run ahead of time, things only break if _all_ of the > following are true: > > 1. The user is performing a custom build > > 2. The user needs to modify configure.ac, Makefile.am, etc. > > 3. autotools have broken themselves since the last time the maintainer ran > autoconf, automake, etc. > > On the other hand, if autoconf is run as part of the build process, then > things break if the autotools have broken themselves since the last time the > package was autobuilt, regardless of any other conditions. > > I think that the former is preferable. I much prefer to find out that something is broken now, when I can fix it, than to find out that it's broken 6 months down the road when it's been shipped broken on CDs everywhere as part of a stable Debian release, and cannot be changed. -- see shy jo
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