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

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 5:44 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.

Maybe the tarball should include a shell script that can achieve a
reproducible build, similar to what bootstrap does.

Jeff