> On Nov 18, 2014, at 7:36 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie > <magnus.ihse.bur...@oracle.com> wrote: > > 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.
So do I understand you correctly that the files we need are automatically copied into the workspace but since we want to use our own, old versions we renamed them and use these instead? > > /Magnus
