autoconf and epel-5

[Tom Lane]

Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> writes:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> What people like Toshio and you miss: auto*generated files are
>> (upstream) maintainer generated _sources_

> They're not sources, the source is something you start from, not something
> generated.

A not unrelated example: some upstreams provide bison or flex generated
C code in addition to the .y or .l file.  If I need to patch in that
area, must I patch the .c file instead of the source?  Why would anyone
consider that to be preferable?

The upstreams that do this generally do it on exactly the same grounds
being advocated here: they don't want to force you to install a working
version of bison or flex in order to build.  That's fine, but it doesn't
seem to me to be an argument for not rebuilding if you do have the tool
at hand.

			regards, tom lane