Should a “configure” script be distributed if configure.ac is available?
问题 Currently, our installation instructions are: autoreconf -fi ./configure ... The autoreconf step generates the configure file from configure.ac and Makefile.in from Makefile.in . If one of the dependencies (say pkg-config ) is not installed, both configure and autoreconf fail although the latter prints a cryptic error message. When releasing source tarballs, should the configure script be supplied in the package or not? What other files need to be included if it has to be distributed? The