Please add autoconf and automake to the buildroot

[Karel Zak]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 03:44:21PM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 03:36:02PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> > Patching the autotool generated files is not a good idea imho...

 I agree ;-)

> I disagree.  You should use autoconf/automake when you create the
> patch, but not at package build time.  There are plenty of incompatible
> autoconf and automake versions, trusting that autoconf and/or automake

 This is **regression** for stable distribution. We are patching
 against an exactly defined environment (=distribution). I hope we can
 believe that gcc and autotools are enough stable durring distribution
 lifetime. 

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak at redhat.com>