Subject: bug#9459: 24.0.50; Condigure aborts, complains about missing install.sh in build-aux.

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:24:47 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> My opinion: no, please don't.  Such changes are rare enough and far in
> between, while normal builds are much more frequent.  It only takes
> one botched build to learn to run autogen.sh manually when "make"
> won't cut it.

I agree.

But would it be possible to have "make" spit out "Compilation failed;
have you tried running ./autogen.sh before reporting this as a bug?" if
building fails?  :-)

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