Re: source dependencies

[Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> I don't know automake well but I think autoconf is very similar.
> Taking it as an example, we have two choices here:
> 
> a) If we ever modify configure.in, the maintainer should run autoconf
> so that the .diff file contains also the diffs for the new configure
> script, and autoconf is not needed again at build time.
> 
> b) We run autoconf at build time.
> 
> I think a) is the best solution, but I'm not sure.

I agree.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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