On Thu, 24 May 2012, Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote:
Make dist creates some Makefile and Makefile.in files,... Why is not better use the original source file without running these commands? Also, the autotools could be different between the file and the distro.
Exactly. That's why you generate them during make dist and then you don't need autotools to just compile and install the package unless you modify the *.am or *.in files. (They may not even work correctly with a newer or older version.) This may matter to distros which don't use binary packages but complie everything from source (e.g. Gentoo or BSD ports).
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