On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 20:35 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Gentoo is the only distro that, apparently, behaves this way. But, if > including the m4 directory in the tarball is the only thing that's needed, > this shouldn't be too difficult.
I don't see why including the m4 directory in the source tarball wouldn't solve the problem completely. Thanks! Gentoo is, to the best of my knowledge, the only Linux distro that builds nearly everything from source, which is both a curse and a blessing, but one can end up with a very highly optimized relationship between one's system requirements, hardware and software. I happen to like it since it's also generally a very active, well supported and well crafted distribution. BSD people like it since the Gentoo portage system resembles BSD's, or so I'm told. Doing a bit of research on the (terminally arcane!) autotools system, I came up with http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/autotools-practices.xml which defines some advisory "best practices" for avoiding this kind of problem, one of which is exactly this - including the required m4 files in the source tarball. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world, | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates" | http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
