an update to automake-1.11?

[Sam Varshavchik]

Richard W.M. Jones writes:

> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:09:51PM -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
>>      2. improves the resiliency of the package build to changes to
>>         Fedora's autotools chain.
> 
> Many projects come with public source repositories, and those don't
> include the binary configure/Makefile.in files.  You usually build
> those locally with a script like 'autogen.sh'.  Projects that depend
> on precise versions of the autotools are just going to break under
> those conditions.

Bingo. Which is why this is a rather strange (not my first, or the second, 
or the nth choice, but I had to spend a few minutes here picking the correct 
adjective that expresses the general idea, but is still somewhat diplomatic) 
way to publish source. And, which is why this is somewhat of a rarity, and a 
novelty.

> libguestfs is a case in point - the Debian maintainer builds it from
> git using some unknown version of autoconf, and I build it on RHEL and

This is a rare exception. For each project you can cite that releases their 
sources this way, I'll be happy to cite twenty others who don't.

Feel free to come up with your largest list. I'll just go through 
Sourceforge, and grab the first x*20 projects, in response.

Given that automake's "make dist" automatically rolls Makefile.in, and 
configure into the tarball (together with a bunch of other stuff), one has 
to go out of their way to leave them out of the tarball.

Bizarre.


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