autoconf and epel-5
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Feb 25 03:24:16 UTC 2009
Tom Lane wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> writes:
>> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>> FWIW, I'll vote against that draft if it gets to the FPC.
>
>> Feel free to do so, but ... are you sure you understand what you are
>> doing? I feel no.
>
> I'm with Toshio. I routinely re-libtoolize/re-autoconf most of my
> packages, and have absolutely no intention of accepting the advice
> given here, because *it doesn't work*.
PEBKAC
> I've tried working with the
> old autoconf scripts embedded in upstream packages. It hasn't worked
> in the past and I don't expect it to start working in the future,
> considering the frequency with which the Fedora toolset changes in
> incompatible ways. What is suggested here is morally equivalent to
> patching at the assembly code level instead of the source level, and
> I ain't gonna put up with that.
Wrong.
What people like Toshio and you miss: auto*generated files are
(upstream) maintainer generated _sources_, not being meant to be
automatically generated nor regenerated.
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