Re: [PATCH] README-release improvements

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hi everybody.  Just my two cents about this matter ...

On Saturday 22 October 2011, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > >> Running the (potentially) outdated configure, to build a (potentially)
> > >> outdated Makefile, which may very well rerun aclocal, automake, autoconf
> > >> etc just to call the maintainer-clean rule, and then blow it all away
> > >> in the next step with a bootstrap seems odd and torturous to me.
> > > 
> > > The above may be a little wasteful.  But it is reliable and turn-key.
> > 
> > No it isn't.
> 
> I'm with Gary on this point.
> 
> How about these steps?
> 
>   make -k maintainer-clean # Clean up previous build artefacts
>   ./configure
>   make maintainer-clean    # Clean up previous build artefacts
>   git checkout master
>   git pull origin master   # don't try (perhaps fail) to pull other branches
>   ./bootstrap              # rerun autotools explicitly on latest sources
>   ./configure              # regenerate Makefile explicitly -"-   -"-
>
At this point, wouldn't it be simpler (and maybe safer) to clone the git 
repository in a new directory, and simply do "./bootstrap && ./configure"
from there?

Regards (and sorry if I'm missing something obvious),
  Stefano