On 16/8/19 9:55 am, Eli Schwartz wrote: > For cross-compatibility with autotools, a dist tarball created from > either meson or autotools should have everything needed to build with > either build system. This ensures that all the files which "make dist" > would make available, are available. > > In order for this to work, autogen.sh needs to know how to enter the > dist working directory, and fail if it cannot successfully cd or run > autoreconf. (It's fine if patch fails because the patch was already > applied.) >
I don't think this is necessary. The transition is from autotools to meson. We need to distribute meson files with autotools until a point comes where we swap to meson. Meson tarballs do not need to distribute autotools files. Allan