[PROPOSAL] To retire autoconf for 4.1

[Stefan (metze) Metzmacher]

Hi C.J.,

> Speaking as a build engineer responsible for compiling samba to run on
> hundreds of systems, I would personally prefer not to phase autotools
> out.  Many distributions assume that there is an autoreconf
> -i ; ./configure ; make ; make install option available in software they
> build for their platforms, and build engineers know the system well
> enough to produce binaries.  Forcing build engineers to learn something
> new will delay and in some cases remove support entirely for samba on
> many platforms.

What in './configure && make && make install' (using waf) is more
complicated
than './autogen.sh && ./configure && make && make install' (using autoconf)?

metze

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