On 16 April 2007 11:17, J.C. Pizarro wrote: > I follow,
No, not very well. > The end-users who just want to compile gcc from a tarball do not > have to have autoconf installed, because we supply all the generated files > for them in the tarball. <- Well, > > what is the matter if the generated files aren't updated? This has never happened as far as I know. Can you point to a single release that was ever sent out with out-of-date generated files? > The users will say many times broken situations like bootstrap doesn't > work or else. I haven't seen that happening either. Releases get tested before they are released. Major failures get spotted. Occasionally, there might be a bug that causes a problem building on one of the less-used (and hence less-well-tested) platforms, but this is caused by an actual bug in the configury, and not by the generated files being out of date w.r.t the source files from which they are generated; regenerating them would only do the same thing again. If you have a counter-example of where this has /actually/ happened, I would be interested to see it. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....