Re: Autotools-generated 'configure' & 'Makefile.in' considered binaries?

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Am Donnerstag, dem 31.03.2022 um 13:10 +0200 schrieb Maxime Devos:
> Liliana Marie Prikler schreef op do 31-03-2022 om 06:22 [+0200]:
> > > It should be possible to look for ‘# Generated by GNU Autoconf’
> > > and
> > > ‘# Makefile.in generated by automake’ lines in some 'find-
> > > generated-autotools-fies’or something.
> > I don't think that will work correctly.  Case in point: pre-inst-
> > env
> > in the Guix source tree.
> 
> I don't see the problem.  "guix build guix" would basically do:
> 
> 1. unpack the tarball / copy the git checkout (which, if I'm not
>    mistaken, does not contain pre-inst-env).
> 2. (if not already done in a snippet): Find the 'Makefile.in' and
>    'configure', by looking at the file name + "Generated by ..."
> lines.
>    The build-aux/pre-inst-env.in is left intact, as it is not named
>    'configure' or 'Makefile.in' (and additionally, it does not
> contain
>    the "Generated by" string.
> 3. Run ./bootstrap
> 4. Run ./configure --localstatedir=/var --prefix=...
>    (which creates 'pre-inst-env')
> 5. Run "make" and "make install"
> 6. Success!
> 
> What would not work correctly here?
grep "[Gg]enerated" pre-inst-env