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."


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