R: Re: Calling autoconf in a spec.

[Kevin Kofler]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I suspect Kevin's concern is that someone stuffs some hidden shell
> code into ./configure which isn't in configure.ac.  (Of the "send all
> your private ssh keys to remote host" variety).
> 
> This concern has some legitimacy.  But OTOH someone could stuff the
> same code into configure.ac or Makefile.am, and it's likely very few
> people would notice.

My concern is more like, if you want or need to change configure.ac after 
all, you end up having to redo all the changes which were hacked directly 
into configure. Often, the simplest fix for configure doesn't work as is in 
configure.ac (because it messes with a template snippet), the fix has to be 
rewritten for configure.ac.

        Kevin Kofler