autoconf and epel-5

[Ralf Corsepius]

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.