Re: autoreconf --force seemingly does not forcibly update everything

[Bruno Haible]

Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>  > Last month, I spent 2 days on prerelease testing of coreutils. If, after
>  > downloading the carefully prepared tarball from ftp.gnu.org, the first
>  > thing a distro does is to throw away the *.m4 files and regenerate the
>  > configure script with their own one,
>  >    * It shows [...]
> 
> FWIW: especially the downstream builds of the 'coreutils' package have been
> using 'autoreconf -fi' for a long time, because the upstream tools do not
> have full I18N support, and the large I18N patch is in use e.g. at Fedora,
> openSUSE and Debian probably since >15 years.

Sure, if downstream applies a patch that modifies bootstrap.conf, they need
to rerun 'bootstrap'. That goes without saying. I hope downstream then also
runs "make check".

Bruno