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Re: Autotools-generated 'configure' & 'Makefile.in' considered binaries?
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Maxime Devos |
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Re: Autotools-generated 'configure' & 'Makefile.in' considered binaries? |
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Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:19:17 +0200 |
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Zhu Zihao schreef op wo 30-03-2022 om 22:31 [+0800]:
> For software developer, they prefer to bundle a generated configure
> script because it will be a bootstrap problem sometimes.
Sometimes that's convenient for upstream, but how is this relevant to
downstream (Guix)? Downstream does not have to follow upstream on all
matters, and for the early packages where there would be bootstrap
problems (GCC, binutils, glibc ...), an exception could be made.
Greetings,
Maxime.
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