autogen is misconfigured
Bruce Korb
bkorb at gnu.org
Sat Mar 3 21:26:35 UTC 2007
[test resend]
Quote one of my "clients":
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running a software package that depends on autogen.
> > This package has an #include <options.h>.
> > But compiling this package on fc6 failed, because the
> > rpm on fc6-extras does not seem to include an options.h
> >
> > Now I haven't used autogen for more than a year.
> > Is options.h obsolete, or superseded by something else?
> > Or is the packager wrong? If so, I'll file a bug report.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ron
My reply was:
> > Hi Ron,
> >
> > 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.
Thank you - Bruce
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