Re: gnulib-tool and autoreconf

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Bruno,

* Bruno Haible wrote on Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 11:18:05AM CET:
> It would seem odd to have 'autoreconf' invoke 'gnulib-tool'. gnulib-tool
> is a tool that *fetches* source files, whereas autoreconf is a tool that
> *combines* source files, generating additional files from them.
> Therefore gnulib-tool logically belongs before autoreconf.

autoreconf fetches files, too:  with --install, both recent aclocal and
libtoolize copy files into the package, given AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR.  And
automake copies files into AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.  Besides the files that
are generated.

So I don't really see the principal difference.

Cheers,
Ralf