autogen is misconfigured

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 01:26:35PM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote:
> [test resend]
> 
> > >
> > > You are correct.  There are _two_ files missing:
> >> >> $ rpm -q -l autogen-5.8.7-6.1.fc5
> >> >> /usr/bin/autogen
> >> >> /usr/bin/columns.autogen
> >> >> /usr/bin/getdefs.autogen
> > > viz.,
> > >
> >> >> $ find /usr/local/include/autoopts -type f
> >> >> /usr/local/include/autoopts/options.h
> >> >> /usr/local/include/autoopts/usage-txt.h
> 
> There are four problems:  The two missing headers
> and the two misnamed executables.  The effect is to
> render all the installed /usr/share/autogen data files
> useless and the documentation useless to boot.  If your
> goal is to strip it down  to the minimum necessary to be
> able to rebuild the C compiler, then please do not call
> your thing the "autogen" package, because it is not.

Looking at the spec it seems that the alternative system is used 
for columns and getdef so everything should be in order. 

For the missing header files, indeed it seems that
%{_includedir}/autoopts/ is excluded.

For this kind of bug repoort, bugzilla is the preferred communication
channel.

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Pat