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bootstrap vs. autogen.sh
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From: |
John W. Eaton |
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Subject: |
bootstrap vs. autogen.sh |
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Date: |
Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:02:56 -0400 |
On 14-Sep-2012, Rik wrote:
| We might consider renaming the autogen.sh script to bootstrap. According to
| the GNU Automake manual, bootstrap is preferred these days although plenty of
| projects are still using the old name.
Our autogen.sh calls the gnulib bootstrap script. Will there be
confusion if we have a top-level bootstrap script and a
build-aux/bootstrap script? I don't think we can use the gnulib
bootstrap script by itself since our autogen.sh does more than the
gnulib bootstrap script alone.
jwe