autoconf and epel-5

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Simon Wesp
<cassmodiah at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i have a little issue with autoconf and epel-5
>
> the statement of the problem:
>
> in configure.ac stands:
> CXXFLAGS="-Wall -O2"
>
> to honor the rpmoptflags i removed this line and create a patch of my
> changes.
>
> now i have to run autoconf to implement my changes. no problem in
> fedora. in epel-5 it will abort:
> http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/logs/fedora-5-epel/1476-hosts3d-0.97-3.el5/i386/build.log
>
>
>
> my idea to handle this problem is:
>
> 1) run autoconf in fedora and create a diff of the changes (as patch1)
>
> 2) handle it in the specfile:
>
> %if 0%{?fedora}
> BuildRequires:   autoconf
> %endif
>
> %prep
> %setup -q -n %{name}-%{srcversion}
>
> # Patch to remove CXXFLAGS from configure.ac
> %patch0 -p1
>
> %if 0%{?rhel}
> # Patch for autoconf 2.60
> %patch1 -p1
> %endif
>
>
> %build
> %if 0%{?fedora}
> autoconf
> %endif
>
>
> is this the right way to solve this problem? i didn't found a helpful
> text passage in the packaging-guidelines
>

That looks close to what the OpenSSH package used to do for dealing
with various autoconf versions. However, not sure what is best
practice either.



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