Gordon Gremme

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It proves the capabilities of our powerful build system :smile: As argued in https://github.com/genometools/genometools/pull/748#issuecomment-186992820 this allows to build statically linked binaries quite easily. The classic paper [Recursive Make Considered Harmful](http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf)...

Getting rid of `src/external` is not an option, that would complicate the build process for normal users. However, Debian has a GenomeTools package and they have the same requirements. @satta...

Then I would guess that your old Python version is the culprit. We never had the problem you reported on current versions.

I'm fine with adding the git hash to the version number for prereleases. I would also be fine with just adding `-prerelease` to the version number in the `VERSION` file...

How did you emulate Linux/PPC? How should we fix this problem? By explicitly using `signed char` instead of `char`?

OK, thanks for the info! And good luck with the patches...

What about adding an `-attr` option which is implemented as a `gt_option_new_string_array()` option and which allows to specify all the attributes which should be added to the extracted sequence description?...

@satta: The approach taken for option `-target` in the case of joined features is to add all target IDs to the description. I'm not sure which approach would be better...

10.9 GB is a huge file. Should not be a problem in principle, but does your machine have enough memory so that it doesn't start swapping? You can also try...