Re: [bug-mailutils] autoreconf failure

[Eray Aslan]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 08:08:23PM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Running autoreconf only makes sense when bootstrapping from the GIT
> sources.

No, it makes a lot of sense for a source based distro like gentoo.  Say
I patch configure.ac and regenerate configure.  When I push those
changes out, every mailutils using gentoo user will patch his
configure.ac and regenerate his own configure script.

Currently, mailutils uses autotools but fails to autoreconf without
providing a convenient way to regenerate autotools scripts.

Autoreconf does the same job as various bootstrap scripts (bootstrap,
autogen etc) but does it in a standard way and without a need to
maintain a separate script.

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Eray Aslan <address@hidden>