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

[Paul Eggert]

On 4/10/24 13:36, Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list wrote:
> Is bootstrap intended to be reliable from within a tarball?  I thought
> the bootstrap script was not included in tarballs because it wasn't
> designed to be ran that way, and the way it is designed may not give
> expected results.

It's pretty routinely distributed, I expect under the theory that we're 
being transparent about what sources we use to generate the tarball.

Whether it works from a tarball depends on one's definition of "works". 
Certainly more expertise and tools are needed to bootstrap than merely 
to configure + make.