changing the autogen.sh approach

[Gerard Jungman]

Mark Galassi wrote:
> 
> (1) autogen.sh just calls libtoolize, aclocal, automake --add-missing,
>     and autoconf.  Then you invoke "configure" yourself.
> 
> (2) autogen.sh also calls configure and passes it all the options,
>     taking care to do the right thing with separate build dirs.
> 
> We are currently doing (2), but I would like to switch to doing (1),
> which is cleaner and makes the autogen.sh script a total no-brainer
> (as it should be).  Does anyone have strong feelings about it?

Yes. I am strongly in agreement. Every time that script
runs ./configure for me, I think "you worthless piece of
shit, why are you doing that."


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G. Jungman