On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:32:50PM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote: > No, it makes a lot of sense for a source based distro like gentoo. Say > I patch configure.ac and regenerate configure. When I push those > changes out, every mailutils using gentoo user will patch his > configure.ac and regenerate his own configure script. > > Currently, mailutils uses autotools but fails to autoreconf without > providing a convenient way to regenerate autotools scripts.
FWIW, I'm with Eray on this one. Sometimes we need to change a Makefile.am, or a configure.ac, or whatever in the build system, and simply doing autoreconf works for us. We even have a debhelper module that automates it. bootstrap is ok for git, but people wanting to modify a tarball release (ie, say Eray and I need to modify parts of a testsuite that failed on sparc64), we need a reliable way of regenerating the autotools stuff. It would certainly make our lives easier. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/
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