[PATCH 1/1] remove build.sh

[Hynek Hanke]

On 24.9.2010 23:22, William Hubbs wrote:
> I feel that we should follow the recommendation of the autotools folks
> and not have a build/autogen.sh at all.  "historical reasons" are not
> always a reason to keep things the way they are, especially if the
> authors of the tools we are using recommend otherwise.

I think the recommendation of the autotools developers
is not to reimplement the task of autoreconf -i in our own
particular ways. They want their script to be in full controll
of which utilities get to call and in which order to prepare the
necessary scripts for AutoConf/AutoMake. This is great I think,
that we do not longer have to care about it.

I don't think though that they recommend against keeping
a one-line script for backwards compatibility. This is not
only compatibility with people minds, but also with packaging
scripts etc.

So I think what the patch of Chris does is exactly to follow
the recommendation of the autotools developers while
keeping backwards compatibility.

The new versions of the INSTALL script should instruct
the direct way (autoreconf -i), not using the wrapper compatibility
script. Since we already have the patch by Chris in the tree, could
you please submit a patch that only cleans up the INSTALL instructions
in this regard?

Thank you very much!
Hynek Hanke