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Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> It is not actually part of the GNU coding standards,

That's why I said `convention', but I don't know of any packages which
don't do that.  Everything built with automake does, and presumably
what that does is canonical.

> as far as I can
> see.  But the rule appears to be present in Emacs:
>
> ${srcdir}/configure: $(MAINT)
> 	cd ${srcdir} && autoconf

but disabled because of MAINT.