Re: Building from CVS

[Reuben Thomas]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Karl Berry wrote:

> My experience is that autoreconf can copy older files over newer ones.
> If you update common files (like config.* and texinfo.tex) via gnulib or
> by hand, autoreconf will not necessarily preserve them.  It's not
> so simple to fix this problem in autoreconf, unfortunately.

Since autoreconf just runs the other autotools, how is this a problem with 
autoreconf specifically?

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