Scripsit Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > 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." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]