Re: A Gtk's build system ?

[Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>]

On Tuesday, 5 August 2014, Simon McVittie <simon mcvittie collabora co uk> wrote:
> Best-practice in at least Debian and Ubuntu is moving towards always
> discarding the upstream-supplied configure and Makefile.in, and
> re-running autoconf/automake to re-generate them during the build; this
> removes some of the perceived advantages of Autotools, but it means
> we're compiling from actual source code, not from something that looks
> vaguely like source code if you aren't really paying attention :-)

For what it's worth OpenEmbedded has also been doing this for years and not as "best practise" but as default behaviour. We basically run autoreconf -sif and have a surprisingly high success rate :)

Ross