Re: Behaviour of Build / Configure in GNU programs

[Mathieu Lirzin]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> Lot's of things are acceptable, but only a few are unacceptable.
> How could we possibly list all the acceptable ones?
>
> As I see it, the GCS is not supposed to be a tutorial document.
> Gnulib is a rather special case of a project, so I don't think
> it is a good example to use anyway.

Sorry if my words were poorly chosen, but my point was not about listing
what is acceptable or transforming the GCS in a tutorial.  What I mean
is that when I read:

"Don't allow any part of the build or configure process to open a
network connection in order to download files remotely"

I am confused about knowing if this extends implicitly to the
"pre-configure" process.  In that regard, it can let readers think that
the usage of Gnulib 'bootstrap' script is not compliant with the GCS.

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Mathieu Lirzin