On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 14:26 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> Well, it _is_ a source package.  I don't think we should be shipping
> pre-built things with it.

This philosophy would suggest shipping `configure.ac', and expecting
people to run "autoconf" for themselves :)

It is common practice to ship pregenerated files with source tarballs;
we do it in the Postgres release tarballs for yacc and lex files, as
well as the SGML docs.

-Neil