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autoreconf vs bootstrap script (was: new coreutil? shuffle - randomize f
From: |
Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
autoreconf vs bootstrap script (was: new coreutil? shuffle - randomize file contents) |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:19:52 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
Paul Eggert wrote:
> Frederik Eaton writes:
> > Is there a script for making a patch with all the right files excluded
> > by the way?
>
> Not yet. That's on the list of things to do. The fix will be to remove
> those files from the repository, and have a bootstrap script that generates
> them. Then "cvs diff" will do the right thing.
Doesn't 'autoreconf --install' do everything that one would want in a
bootstrap script these days? And if not shouldn't it?
Bob "...who thinks that bootstrap scripts are obsolete now..."