v0.17.1.1 tarball does not contain a pregenerated configure script

[aabacchus]

Please could you run autoconf before generating the tarball?
Thank you

[rkd77]

It was on purpose, to avoid xz like issues. I want to deprecate autotools and encourage to build with meson.

[aabacchus]

Ok, but then why is configure.ac still included?

[smemsh]

I like the Meson build now, but it was confusing at first, because historically elinks always used configure script. There started to be issues with builds due to lack of sync between them, but originally, I did not know we were supposed to use Meson.

It's been years now, maybe good to just remove autotools...

[aabacchus]

http://elinks.cz/documentation/installation.html

This page, and the INSTALL file, also recommend to use the configure script and don't mention meson.

[aabacchus]

By the way, it seems like the meson.build doesn't have exactly the same defaults as the configure script; I had to explicitly disable the following options which were assumed to be off using configure:

 -Dtre=false -Didn=false -Dlibcss=false -Dgpm=false 

[rkd77]

Yes, but if I change defaults for meson, I can break build scripts for those who already switched to meson.
My language skills are not good enough to write documentation. Sorry.