Inflation of explicit build requirements

[Leonard den Ottolander]

Hi Milo,

> The GNU coding standards recommend that files generated by yacc/bison or
> flex are shipped with the tarball and should therefore not be generated
> during the build; this obviously also applies to automake and autoconf.
> 
> Things change when you need to patch the source files and regenerate the
> rebuilt files, but that should not be the common case :)

Well, actually it is common practice. About half of the rpms I built in
the last few days use automake and/or autoconf. It is obvious the GNU
coding standards do not have much bearing on Red Hat/Fedora practice
with regard to building rpms.

Leonard.

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