[tex-live] Build process: Configure and compilation mixed up?

[Frank Küster]

karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) wrote:

>     after that compilation and more configure runs are
>     interspersed. Is this known and intended, 
>
> Yes.

Fine.

> Yes.  Peter did not go to all the trouble of implementing this just for
> fun.  There are details in the archives.

Can you give me a hint?  I cannot find it with the search terms I used.

TIA, Frank

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Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
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