[PATCH 1/1] remove build.sh

[William Hubbs]

Hi Hynek,

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Hynek Hanke wrote:
> On 24.9.2010 23:22, William Hubbs wrote:
> > I feel that we should follow the recommendation of the autotools folks
> > and not have a build/autogen.sh at all.  "historical reasons" are not
> > always a reason to keep things the way they are, especially if the
> > authors of the tools we are using recommend otherwise.
> 
> I think the recommendation of the autotools developers
> is not to reimplement the task of autoreconf -i in our own
> particular ways. They want their script to be in full controll
> of which utilities get to call and in which order to prepare the
> necessary scripts for AutoConf/AutoMake. This is great I think,
> that we do not longer have to care about it.
> 
> I don't think though that they recommend against keeping
> a one-line script for backwards compatibility. This is not
> only compatibility with people minds, but also with packaging
> scripts etc.
> 
> So I think what the patch of Chris does is exactly to follow
> the recommendation of the autotools developers while
> keeping backwards compatibility.
> 
> The new versions of the INSTALL script should instruct
> the direct way (autoreconf -i), not using the wrapper compatibility
> script. Since we already have the patch by Chris in the tree, could
> you please submit a patch that only cleans up the INSTALL instructions
> in this regard?
 
Ok, I understand what you are saying, and I'm fine with it. :-)


I will submit the patch that updates the installation instructions.

 Thanks,

 William
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