Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Oh, no! You mean, the tarball I downloaded from upstream, labeled
"source
code", did not actually contain the source code?
It contains both the actual source code and some unreadable generated
gibberish which is NOT source code and which is being passed off as such
(which is why the autotools are broken by design: it's a mistake to
encourage shipping generated files in a source tarball).
Kevin Kofler