Re: Cleanup initialization of configure process (issue 549350043 by address@hidden)

[jonas . hahnfeld]

On 2020/01/14 13:59:43, dak wrote:
> On 2020/01/14 13:52:02, hahnjo wrote:
> > Is this ok to push in its current revision?

> I am not overly happy that it makes for inoperative code in the case
of a
> read-only repository that autogen.sh tries catering for.  Can/should
autogen.sh
> pass some sort of environment variable that this can be picked up from
in the
> shell code executed for getting the version number?  Or is this
available in
> some m4 variable one could pick up?

As autoconf itself doesn't handle this case, I doubt there is a good
solution.

> Maybe at least stick a #FIXIT comment into autogen.sh (and possibly
> configure.ac) so that someone bumping into this has less trouble
figuring out
> what went wrong?

Sure can do. If nobody complains, maybe we could even consider dropping
support for autogen'ing a readonly source directory?

https://codereview.appspot.com/549350043/