On 4/1/24 11:54 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Last month, I spent 2 days on prerelease testing of coreutils. If, after > downloading the carefully prepared tarball from ftp.gnu.org, the first > thing a distro does is to throw away the *.m4 files and regenerate the > configure script with their own one, > * It shows [...]
FWIW: especially the downstream builds of the 'coreutils' package have been using 'autoreconf -fi' for a long time, because the upstream tools do not have full I18N support, and the large I18N patch is in use e.g. at Fedora, openSUSE and Debian probably since >15 years. Nowadays, the coreutils-i18n.patch [1][2] gets smaller and smaller because upstream is adding I18N step by step in one tool or another. But we're still not there yet, unfortunately. [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/coreutils/blob/main/f/coreutils-i18n.patch [2] https://build.opensuse.org/projects/openSUSE:Factory/packages/coreutils/files/coreutils-i18n.patch?expand=1 Have a nice day, Berny
