On Oct 27, 2015, at 4:46 PM, Gilles Gouaillardet <gil...@rist.or.jp> wrote:
> 
> my 0.02 US$ ...
> 
> - autogen.pl was recently used with v1.10 on a PowerPC Little Endian arch
> (that was mandatory since the libtool we use to generate v1.10 series do not 
> yet support PPC LE)

True.  But we fixed that; it'll be in 1.10.1.

> - if we remove (from the tarball) autogen.pl, should we also remove 
> configure.ac ?
>  and what about m4 files and Makefile.am ?

Nope; if we remove those, the dependencies will be off and Bad Things will 
happen.

> - an alternative to removing autogen.pl (from the tarball) is to have 
> autogen.pl
>  test repo_rev and/or tarball_version from VERSION so we can detect if 
> autogen.pl is ran
>  from a tarball. in that case, we could fail with a message such as
>  "you might not want to do that, but if you really do, re-run autogen.pl with 
> the --force parameter"

That's a good idea.

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