Regenerating preconfigure files

[Andreas K. Huettel]

Am Dienstag, 19. August 2025, 12:39:45 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 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?

OK, done and verified that regeneration is a nop on current master.

> 
> 


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Andreas K. Hüttel
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