Re: top level make file with deep dir struct demo

[Brian Dessent]

Matt Hull wrote:

> i was just thinking that.  so i can do the top level makefile and use
> autoconf/automake on the current system and configure and make should work
> on the outdated ?

That is why you include the configure script (and any other generated
files) in your tarball.  The person that builds from your tarball
doesn't even need auto{conf,make} installed on their system because the
generated files are meant to be self-sufficient.  They would only need a
recent version of the tools if they made a change to one of the *.am or
*.in files and wanted to regenerate the configure script.

Brian