Please add autoconf and automake to the buildroot

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Fri Sep 22 18:48:08 UTC 2006


Steve Dickson wrote:
> Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>> the guidelines are pretty clear on what is and is not included by 
>> default.  If you call autoconf or outomake  then you need to BR them  
>> its fairly simple.   The problem should have shown up in your local 
>> mock build before you committed the build.
> Thats the point... nothing error-ed out because there was an
> outdated makefile that already existed and so it was used...
> Again, this is an *undetectable* situation that will cause
> rpm corruption but is easily fixed by simply adding autoconf
> and automake to the buildroot..

You patched Makefile.am, but didn't re-run automake?  Your packaging 
already had a bug then.

- ajax




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