On Tuesday, October 27, 2015, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com>
wrote:

> we do occasionally get the user on us...@open-mpi.org <javascript:;> who
> runs autogen.pl for no reason, and then runs into problems because
> they've got old Autotools
>

I has occurred to me that this same class of user is likely to just run
autoreconf if autogen.pl is removed.

So Gilles' suggestions of a "smarter"  autogen.pl seems much safer.

-Paul


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