On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 12:51:33PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 4:49 PM Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 08:05:00AM +0000, Ilari Jääskeläinen wrote: > > > Can you include ”autogen.sh” in release source tarballs? > > > > That looks ok to me. I just checked that ./autogen.sh seems to be > > working ok from the release tarball. > > 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. -- Pat
