autoconf and epel-5

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 02:06:15PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> The most authoritative thing I can find in the Wiki seems to frown on
> the practice of patching configure.ac in the first place:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/AutoConf

Sensibly, everyone ignores this advice.

> "Autotools-generated source packages are intended to be buildable
> without requiring the autotools on the host system. autoconf, automake,
> libtoolize [...]

which shows how stupid it is, because when you build an RPM in Koji
you obviously _do_ have all the autotools available to you.

Rich.

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