Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:15:43 +0100 (MET)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Configure scripts
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Eli Zaretskii 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. 
That's right. But then, I think you can assume that if somebody modifies such
a package, they s/he will take care of d/loading the extra tools needed.

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