On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:58:26AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
How quickly people forget :-(
The developer tools came to use specific generated versions of those
files because people encountered host dependant problems with the
generators. Guarenteed that the generated files being run, were
identical across all fronts.
I didn't forget. If we re-encounter such problems then we can go back
to having blessed tarballs. Your "idealistic" goal is a lot more
realistic than you seem to think; the autotools have matured a great
deal.