Re: Autotools update

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>
>>> Does the FreeBSD one actually produce different output?
>>
>>
>> If it did not, why would they bother making a separate package called
>> "gnu-autoconf" with the note "This port is specifically designed for
>> developers that want to create cross-platform software distributions on
>> FreeBSD."?
>
>
> If it did produce different output, why haven't we noticed it prior to 
> this?  Has there actually *been* a problem that nobody has reported?
>
>
Is autoconf actually run as part of any of our packaging scripts? My 
impression was that developers ran it and the committed the results 
(e.g. a configure script), unlike, say, bison where the scripts for 
tarballs have to call it. But then, of course I hardly know :-)

cheers

andrew