Calling autoconf in a spec.

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> writes:

> [...]
>> > There's a big difference between having the upstream, who knows their
>> > configure script inside and out,
>> 
>> That's a very bold assertion. ;-) Many upstream developers just copy&paste 
>> their configure.ac scripts together [...]
>
> Yeah, autotools stuff is very often cargo-culted. [...]

To the extent that's true, it makes it even less appropriate for the
packager to expect that the rickety autoconf inputs will be robust
enough to be randomly regenerated with random future autoconf versions.

- FChE