Thank you Michal and Haelwenn for your advises. I'm taking as reference the documentation about functions syntax in devmanual[1] (very useful for a quickly review).
In the source code where autoreconf is being called I found a configure.ac and Makefile.am. Looking into autogen.sh[2] script prvided by the maintainer I confirm that he runs the following commands: - autoreconf -i -f - for each supported distribution defines variable extra_opts - "${SRC_DIR}/configure" --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/usr $extra_opts "$@" So it seems that the best approach would be the way you suggested in your example Haelwenn. [1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/ebuild/index.html [2] https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/blob/master/cmd/autogen.sh
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