On Mar 26, 2025, at 10:11 AM, Ryan Carsten Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2) Patch the sources of 'configure' and rerun autoconf. This is the >> conceptually cleanest approach, but it not only adds unnecessary build time >> but also adds the reproducibility/verifiability issue noted above. > > This is what I am proposing we switch to. As I said, added build time is > decreasing to negligibility as computers get faster. I'd rather our build > machines spend a few more seconds on a build than spend an hour of my time > manually patching an old configure script.
I think encouraging this is reasonable (while still letting maintainers choose to just patch configure if they feel like it's worth their time to do that/update it for new releases instead). -- Daniel J. Luke
