Re: configure.ac in octave forge packages

[Marco Atzeri]

On 22/06/2016 10:40, Julien Bect wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a naive question from someone with a very limited understanding of
> autotools: is it necessary/useful/good-practice to have a
> src/configure.ac file in the source release of a package?
>
> As I understand it, once configure has been generated, configure.ac is
> not needed anymore, right?
>
> @++
> Julien

it depends on how complex the configure.ac is.
Usually I expect to rebuild configure from configure.ac
to take care of system differences