autoconf and epel-5

[Ralf Corsepius]

Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
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>> What people like Toshio and you miss: auto*generated files are
>> (upstream) maintainer generated _sources_, not being meant to be
>> automatically generated nor regenerated.
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> Most package sources in SCMs don't include those files, when they are in
> the tarballs it is for convenience AFAIU.
>   
You are wrong - RTFM, e.g. info automake, info standards.
> And if the sources from which those files are created are being
> distributed in the package I'd take that as a strong hint that you are
> free to recreate them as needed.
>   
If you know what you are doing, yes.