Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] config.sub: Update config.sub to latest version

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 01:44:32PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> Am Thu, 16 May 2019 12:39:02 +0100
> schrieb Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > I guess all I can say at this point is that I haven't done a survey on
> > the differences of the autotools shipped in all the distros we care
> > about (especially the older ones), so I would err on the safe side to
> > keep the in-tree configure script.
> 
> Given that all distros for sure did run 'autogen.sh' in a large number
> of packages since years it is easy to guess that in general it just works.
> 
> And if Xen decides that a certain autoconf version is is the minimum,
> configure.ac has a knob for that the minimal required tools version.

OK. This does alleviate my concern.

> As I said, autoools are not runtime dependencies, nor is make|flex|bison.
> 
> So, please consider moving these generated files to .gitignore.
> 

Ian, your opinion?

Wei.

> Olaf



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