Please add autoconf and automake to the buildroot

Tom Tromey tromey at redhat.com
Sat Sep 23 02:27:35 UTC 2006


>>>>> "Jakub" == Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> writes:

Jakub> You should use autoconf/automake when you create the
Jakub> patch, but not at package build time.

I agree, due to the versioning problem.  It looks like there are 5
versions of automake in active use ("yum list automake*")...

That isn't a good situation, but assuming that the one named
'automake' will work with the current package is not a robust
assumption.

It doesn't seem to be a big deal to either BuildRequire the specific
needed version, or to include the configure/Makefile.in/etc bits in
the patch.

Also ideally, upstream packagers would move to more recent auto*
releases.  Updating from automake 1.[678] to 1.9 is generally not a
big deal.  Autoconf upgrades, or automake 1.[45]->1.9 upgrades, can be
harder.

Tom




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