Re: [avr-libc-dev] reconf

[Paul Schlie]

> From: "E. Weddington" <address@hidden>
> Paul Schlie wrote:
> 
>>> From: Russell Shaw <address@hidden>
>>> 
>>> One thing i forgot to mention is that projects often have a
>>> script called bootstrap or autogen that goes thru the steps
>>> of running aclocal, autoheader, autoconf, and automake. These
>>> scripts can check for versions of the installed tools if
>>> needed.
>>>    
>> 
>> Which ideally only the maintainers need ever run, to properly
>> update the ./configure script in the archive as may be required.
>> 
>> (hopefully)
>> 
> Correct.
> 
> The only other usage is if someone wanted to build avr-libc from a CVS
> checkout and not from the release tarball, they would run bootstrap
> first, then the configre/make/make install.

Nope, there's no reason for the current ./configure script not to be in
the cvs archive, just as typically included in most such cvs archives.