On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 14:51 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > jhbuild is designed primarily to operate with development checkouts, > and thus usually runs autogen.sh. It's operating on the assumption > that you might update your checkout and need to regenerate the > autotools. It's just a bug in the jhbuild code that it doesn't prefer > configure for tarballs. I looked at it and it seems that the > information to know that the source directory came from a tarball is > not available when it comes time to determine which script to run. > Probably need to open a bug on gnome.org. >
Actually what jhbuild does make sense. They are relying on the presence/absence of this script to support both git/tarball builds. This is a widely adopted convention.
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