Bernhard Voelker 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.
Sure, if downstream applies a patch that modifies bootstrap.conf, they need to rerun 'bootstrap'. That goes without saying. I hope downstream then also runs "make check". Bruno
