On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 08:57:52AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
So, given a (simpler) human-generated manifest, together with build environment information, the autoconf system works as some sort of compiler. And we often ship this compiled file for convenience — but (in principle, at least) we could just regenerate it from “real” sources.
Autotools is another thing we should take a closer look at. Many autotools artifacts contain copyright and license statements. So we have automatically generated things that cause human work in maintaining machine readable copyright files.
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