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From: | Rik |
Subject: | bootstrap vs. autogen.sh |
Date: | Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:48:14 -0700 |
9/14/12 John, We might consider renaming the autogen.sh script to bootstrap. According to the GNU Automake manual, bootstrap is preferred these days although plenty of projects are still using the old name. http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/faq/autotools-faq.html#What-does-_002e_002fbootstrap-or-_002e_002fautogen_002esh-do_003f 2.4 What does ./bootstrap or ./autogen.sh do?TODO usually: call autotools commands to copy and generate a number of files. Often just autoreconf -vi. gnulib provides a very elaborate bootstrap script, see VCS Issues, see Modified imports. The name bootstrap is
preferred over ‘autogen.sh’
as there
also exists an independent software package named AutoGen. --Rik |
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