On Tuesday, 5 August 2014, Simon McVittie <simon.mcvit...@collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> Best-practice in at least Debian and Ubuntu is moving towards always > discarding the upstream-supplied configure and Makefile.in, and > re-running autoconf/automake to re-generate them during the build; this > removes some of the perceived advantages of Autotools, but it means > we're compiling from actual source code, not from something that looks > vaguely like source code if you aren't really paying attention :-) > For what it's worth OpenEmbedded has also been doing this for years and not as "best practise" but as default behaviour. We basically run autoreconf -sif and have a surprisingly high success rate :) Ross
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