Re: build depends on auto{conf,make}

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:29:18PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > Do you actually need to call auto*?  Normally packages just use the
> > generated files upstream provides unless there's some particular reason
> > not to.
> yes, I need to call auto* because the sources are from a cvs repository
> on which the generated files aren't stored.
If you use auto*, why not just "make dist(check)" and use that as 
orig.tar.gz?
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