On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 5:44 PM Paul Eggert <egg...@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