autoreconf vs bootstrap script (was: new coreutil? shuffle - randomize file contents)

[Bob Proulx]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Frederik Eaton writes:
> > Is there a script for making a patch with all the right files excluded
> > by the way?
> 
> Not yet.  That's on the list of things to do.  The fix will be to remove
> those files from the repository, and have a bootstrap script that generates
> them.  Then "cvs diff" will do the right thing.

Doesn't 'autoreconf --install' do everything that one would want in a
bootstrap script these days?  And if not shouldn't it?

Bob "...who thinks that bootstrap scripts are obsolete now..."