Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

On 08/10/2009 09:01 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On 08/10/2009 11:44 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > They are very easy to demonstrate. Commonly known cases are building
> > gcc, binutils, gdb, firefox etc.
>
> Are these of the sort where a bug is reported, it's found that autotools
> made a bad decision, and then patching autotools fixed the problem?
Unlike some people around on this list, these tools' upstreams know how 
to use the autotools (I am active contributor to all of them):
Use pregenerated files, do not run the autotools while building.

Ralf