Re: Add more check in autoreconf

[Javier Jardón]

On 17 August 2012 05:17, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 08/16/2012 02:04 PM, Javier Jardón wrote:
>
> A bit of research shows that you got some facts mixed up.
> gnome-autogen.sh was created (as autogen.sh) in 2000:
> while autoreconf has existed since 1994:

Oh sorry about this I didnt know the details about the creation of
gnome-autogen (I relatively new to the GNOME project). I wonder why it
was created then ...
Anyway

> If you are willing to write patches to autoreconf to incorporate new
> tools into the common autotools, then we will gladly review them.  But I
> probably won't write those patches.  GNOME isn't the only project to
> have an initial checkout script that wraps not only autoreconf but
> several other tools; gnulib is a primary example of this, where many
> gnulib clients (such as GNU coreutils) don't directly use autoreconf.
> Note that many packages name their initial script 'bootstrap' rather
> than a variant of 'autogen', so as to avoid confusion with the actual
> 'AutoGen' package.

Excellent! O do not speak perl myself, but Ill try to find someone or
maybe learn some perl is not a bad idea ;)

Regards