Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 08:42:01 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Configure scripts
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:

> isn't it sufficient to distribute only the generated files?

That is already done this way.  But you might need a way to regenerate the
Makefiles and config.h (e.g., if you add some functions to the library or
the header files, like when testing a beta version of the next DJGPP
release).  Since many packages have multi-directory structure where the
top-level Makefile invokes the sub-makes and sets variables which they
use, it is not a good idea to tell people to edit the files manually.