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Re: gnulib-tool and autoreconf
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: gnulib-tool and autoreconf |
Date: |
Sun, 7 Dec 2008 11:17:48 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Hello Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 11:18:05AM CET:
> It would seem odd to have 'autoreconf' invoke 'gnulib-tool'. gnulib-tool
> is a tool that *fetches* source files, whereas autoreconf is a tool that
> *combines* source files, generating additional files from them.
> Therefore gnulib-tool logically belongs before autoreconf.
autoreconf fetches files, too: with --install, both recent aclocal and
libtoolize copy files into the package, given AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR. And
automake copies files into AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR. Besides the files that
are generated.
So I don't really see the principal difference.
Cheers,
Ralf