[Bug 546169] Review Request: libtar-ng : tar library

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--- Comment #30 from Kevin Kofler <kevin at tigcc.ticalc.org>  2009-12-14 10:15:45 EDT ---
There's no requirement to include autotools-generated files in the upstream
tarballs, it's perfectly possible to generate them at build time. Doing this
generation at build time is just not the way the autotools are intended to be
used by upstream. But it's done in quite a few cases and it has some advantages
(but also drawbacks). That said, in this case, you aren't running libtool at
build time, so it doesn't make sense to put it as BuildRequires.

My personal recommendation would be to convert the build system to CMake, which
doesn't use that kind of generated files at all and is just generally nicer.
But there's nothing wrong from a packaging standpoint with using autotools, be
it at tarball generation time or at build time.

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