Re: [PATCHES] Various

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>> +       (uri (string-append "http://www.leptonica.com/source/leptonica-";
>>> +                           version ".tar.gz"))
>>
>> Really, they didn’t use ‘make dist’?
>
> I don't understand; what does make dist do differently?

A tarball generated by ‘make dist’ (like most tarballs of GNU packages)
already has a ‘configure’ script and Makefile templates; thus it doesn’t
depend on Autoconf, Automake, etc.

However, this package recipe explicitly adds Autoconf, Automake, and
Libtool as inputs, plus it runs ‘autoreconf’.  So I suspect this is
because upstream’s tarball isn’t self-contained, right?

Ludo’.