Re: [fetchmail-devel] automake migration

[Rob F. <rf...@fu...>]

R.O. Blättner wrote:
> Did I get it right that this is opposed to ESR's tarballs where
> always some auto* stuff was running while doing "make config" ?

I'm not sure I understand your question....
The tarballs we produce will be very much like ESR's tarballs.

Whenever you run "configure", that configure script was produced by 
autoconf. In the past it was ESR's installation of autoconf that produced 
the configure script.  Autoconf itself never actually runs on your machine 
when you compile fetchmail, only the script it produces.  Now it will be 
our (the main developers) installations of autoconf that produce the 
configure script.

Except now our installations of automake will also contribute, which makes 
things easier for us.  That change will not be very noticable to you 
unless you pay attention to the makefiles or get the code from the 
Subversion repository.

> Hi, Rob, many THX for Your quick and enlightening response !

You're welcome!

> So I may continue to test (nearly) every release
> as I've done in the past ...   :-)
>
> When time permits I may contribute some fixes too in the future.

Looking forward to it!

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