On 4/10/24 13:36, Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list wrote:
Is bootstrap intended to be reliable from within a tarball? I thought the bootstrap script was not included in tarballs because it wasn't designed to be ran that way, and the way it is designed may not give expected results.
It's pretty routinely distributed, I expect under the theory that we're being transparent about what sources we use to generate the tarball.
Whether it works from a tarball depends on one's definition of "works". Certainly more expertise and tools are needed to bootstrap than merely to configure + make.
