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Re: enhancement proposal
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Patrice Dumas |
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Re: enhancement proposal |
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Mon, 30 May 2022 10:52:19 +0200 |
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 12:51:33PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 4:49 PM Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr> wrote:
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> > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 08:05:00AM +0000, Ilari Jääskeläinen wrote:
> > > Can you include ”autogen.sh” in release source tarballs?
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> > That looks ok to me. I just checked that ./autogen.sh seems to be
> > working ok from the release tarball.
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> What would be the purpose of this? Why run autogen.sh if not building
> from the git repository?
It can be useful if building from source and not from git, as it
allows to 'reset' build stuff. I occasionally run it when some file
is not synced, and, although I do it from the build directory, I can
imagine that some users may want to run it from the source tarball.
This can also be of use for packagers, in case they want to patch
configure.ac/Makefile.am or other files and redo as we do.
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Pat