Regenerating preconfigure files

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 8/19/25 4:12 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> In our documentation,
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Regeneration
> autoconf regeneration is only applied to literal 'configure.ac' files.
> 
> Should this be extended to *configure.ac files, so it includes the preconfigure.ac
> fragments?

Yes it should.

 From first principles the goal is to show that the release is reproducible, including
the pre-generated files.

Running the step catches any reproducibility issues that were caused by incorrect
patching of scripts or incorrect versions of tooling used.

When I wrote the docs it was my intent to capture all such files and regenerate them.

Please adjust the docs and process to include pre* files?

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.