Calling autoconf in a spec.

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 15:12 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> But, personally, I don't mind the extra work, see. I just have this odd idea  
> of assigning a somewhat higher priority to having a reproducible build  
> script, that produces the same results each and every time. I guess I've  
> just been brainwashed by what I need to do during the day, where any kind of  
> a change must be vetted, before it gets introduced into a situation where  
> unexpected downtime gets very, very costly. But, of course I forget that  
> this is not the case here, and if a future version of autoconf breaks  
> something, no big deal, and we'll just fix the package when we find it.  
> Works for me.

Most upstreams re-generate the build scripts with each release, too,
remember. So if autoconf changes behaviour, your patch against the
generated files is very likely to stop applying.
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