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    <B>Guillaume Rousse</B> 
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    <I>Wed Sep 19 12:34:46 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>Le 19/09/2012 10:55, Oden Eriksson a &#233;crit :
&gt;<i> Hello people.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Someone was wondering why i added autogen.sh in libxslt. There is a reason for
</I>&gt;<i> this after long time maintaining open source softwares. See it as a &quot;last
</I>&gt;<i> known good&quot; way of using the autopoo stuff as done upstream.
</I>Just because you never understood autoconf is not an excuse to use such 
kind of derogative comments.

&gt;<i> If &quot;autoreconf -
</I>&gt;<i> fi&quot; should ever fail in libxslt use the provided autogen.sh file. These files
</I>&gt;<i> tends to disappear or be moved to the upstream release managers private hard
</I>&gt;<i> drive only, or something like that. It's simply wise to keep autogen.sh for
</I>&gt;<i> ourselves for reference. If you don't need to use it, fine, but keep it.
</I>Those dedicated scripts disappear because they are now obsoletes in 
favor of a generic solution maintained upstream. You'd better find an 
actual case where using the standard tool fails, whereas using such kind 
of ad-hoc wrapper works, before bloating packages with useless hacks.

BTW, libxslt builds perfectly without ever regenerating the build system...

-- 
BOFH excuse #189:

SCSI's too wide.
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