Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies
Scripsit Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>
>> > To a certain degree, those would have been fixed if people
>> > build-depended on auto*, as they would have picked up fixed versions
>> > of the .m4 files.
>> But that has to be offset against the huge number of bugs that would
>> occur if we ran auto* at run time and had everything break everytime
>> the target moves.
> That kind of bug will appear when a user tries to modify
> other parts of the auto* files, and regenerate them.
Better have them restricted to developers and users who modify code
than to have them happen randomly to people who just want to build the
unmodified package.
--
Henning Makholm "However, the fact that the utterance by
Epimenides of that false sentence could imply the
existence of some Cretan who is not a liar is rather unsettling."
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