On 2014-11-18 01:59, Christian Thalinger wrote:
On Nov 17, 2014, at 4:11 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bur...@oracle.com>
wrote:
On 2014-11-14 21:44, Dean Long wrote:
The distribution exception is there exactly since anyone should be able to
distribute the files with their configure script. That does not mean that you
are allowed to edit it, though.
What if we require Autoconf to be installed on the host? Does that solve any
problems?
No, unfortunately not.
Why not?
Autoconf picks up these files automatically from the build-aux
directory. That's also the reason we need to rename the original files
and provide wrappers with the same name, since we can't even redirect
that functionality to a file with another name.
/Magnus
