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Re: Reautoconfing
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Wookey |
Subject: |
Re: Reautoconfing |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 20:25:23 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
On 2020-12-20 17:46 +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> This patch is already in Gnulib since 2020-12-09. But when people
> run 'autoreconf' on an existing released tarball, they are effectively
> combining an older Gnulib with a newest Autoconf.
>
> Why do people do that? The point of tarballs is that you can run
> './configure' right away.
Because on balance, over the long term, it works better. This page
explains why debian now does this by default:
https://wiki.debian.org/Autoreconf
We realise that it was/is not the autotools design, but that design
only works well when the auto* bits get updated reasonably often. If
they just get left (because the last relase was a decade ago) or
copied over into releases but never actually updated for years and
years (which often happens in practice) they can (and in my experience
often do) get badly out of sync with the surrounding world.
Testing that things build with the tools now, as opposed to the tools
available when the tarball was generated, demonstrates that the
software can still be built from source.
Wookey
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- Re: Request to revert the C version change, (continued)
- Re: Request to revert the C version change, Zack Weinberg, 2020/12/16
- Re: Request to revert the C version change, Ross Burton, 2020/12/16
- Re: Request to revert the C version change, Zack Weinberg, 2020/12/16
- Re: Request to revert the C version change, Zack Weinberg, 2020/12/20
- Re: Request to revert the C version change, Bruno Haible, 2020/12/20
- Re: Request to revert the C version change, Ross Burton, 2020/12/20
- Re: Request to revert the C version change, Zack Weinberg, 2020/12/20
- Re: Request to revert the C version change, Zack Weinberg, 2020/12/20
- Re: Request to revert the C version change, Zack Weinberg, 2020/12/23
- Re: Request to revert the C version change, Zack Weinberg, 2020/12/20
- Re: Reautoconfing,
Wookey <=
- Re: Reautoconfing, Paul Eggert, 2020/12/20
- Re: Reautoconfing, Wookey, 2020/12/20
- Re: gnulib / autoconf sync, Bruno Haible, 2020/12/23
- Re: gnulib / autoconf sync, Bruno Haible, 2020/12/23
- Autoconf version number after 2.70, Paul Eggert, 2020/12/23
- Re: Autoconf version number after 2.70, Julien ÉLIE, 2020/12/24
- Re: Autoconf version number after 2.70, Zack Weinberg, 2020/12/30
- Re: Autoconf version number after 2.70, David A. Wheeler, 2020/12/30
- Re: Autoconf version number after 2.70, Paul Eggert, 2020/12/31
- Re: Autoconf version number after 2.70, Marko Lindqvist, 2020/12/30