Re: A better autogen.sh

[Jim Meyering]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Jim Meyering writes:
>
>  > Sure, but that's fine.  This is only stopgap, for those who
>  > don't read the build instructions.  Those users are unlikely
>  > to be doing a non-srcdir build.
>
> Good luck with that attitude!
>
> Seriously, it may be the best you can do, but if so, be a little bit
> ashamed.  The users who don't read the build instructions are on
> average not so dumb as you apparently think.

Wow.  I'm taken aback.
Attitude?  Where do you read "attitude" that I should be ashamed of?
I certainly don't think (and didn't even imply) that instruction-skippers
are dumb.  I'm one of them, sometimes.

The point is that most experienced users will manage
to solve the problem of a missing ./configure themselves,
and hence won't need to report a "bug" or ask for help.
In any case, they are far outnumbered by the less-experienced
users, the vast majority of whom will perform a srcdir build.
Hence my "unlikely".

Nothing I should be ashamed of, afaics.

Jim