an update to automake-1.11?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Jul 6 22:34:46 UTC 2009


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





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