On Fri, Apr 21, Fabrice Le Fessant wrote:

> A lot of people use `autoconf` to generate `./configure` scripts, and the
> standard practice is to keep the `./configure` script so that people don't need
> to run `autoconf` to just compile and install the software. Maybe projects

This is and was a huge mistake to promote 'configure&&make' instead of
autogen.sh&&configure&&make. Having a set of uptodate autotools
installed is easy and cheap, they are not runtime dependencies. The
result of that wrongdoing is a huge pile of broken and/or incomplete configure.ac.

Do not repeat that mistake, whatever it means in the OCaml world.

Olaf