On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 10:26:55AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2024 at 04:30:44PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > But, it is conventional for Autotools projects to ship the generated > > ./configure script *as well* (for example this is what `make dist` > > outputs), to allow the project to be compiled on systems that do not > > have the complete Autotools system installed. > > Or, because some upstream maintainers have learned through, long, > bitter experience that newer versions of autoconf tools may result in > the generated configure script to be busted (sometimmes subtly), and > so distrust relying on blind autoreconf always working.
When was the last time this actually happened to you? I certainly remember it being a problem in the early 2.5x days, but it's been well over a decade since this actually bit me. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
