autoconf [was Re: Please review the draft for May's report]

[Bernhard M. Wiedemann]

On 08/06/2024 00.25, kpcyrd wrote:
> and instead build the configure script on the official distro 
> build-servers as part of the regular build - which would then already be 
> covered by regular reproducible builds infrastructure.

I think the trouble here is that you need the right versions of libtool, 
autoconf and/or automake available at buildtime.
Maybe even different versions for different upstream packages.
And which version might not even be declared there.


On a related tangent:
In Ruby there is a Gemfile - it would be good for C/C++ projects to have 
some generic description of what dependencies or build tools are needed 
- and what version.
Then it could even be automatically used in packages of various flavors 
(Debian, openSUSE, Fedora, Arch, Nix).


Ciao
Bernhard M.