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Comment by duped

3 months ago

Do you review the 10k+ lines of generated bash in ./configure, too?

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cozzyd  3 months ago

./configure shouldn't be in your repo unless it's handwritten

  • johnisgood  3 months ago

    Pretty much. It is called "autotools" for a reason.

    Theoretically you should be able to generate the configuration scripts through "autoconf" (or autoreconf), or generate Makefile.in for configure from Makefile.am using "automake", etc.

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