On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 09:34 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Get rid of all that jazz with rerunning autoconf and automake. This is not
> needed on any other distro, and should not be needed on Gentoo.
Sam, I'm sure you have strong opinions about distributions and how they
should work, but the fact is that Gentoo _relies_ on building executable
from source on the target system. Other distributions make it optional,
and as per Open Source policy source code is always available.
The Gentoo courier ebuild maintainer has chosen, for reasons that I
won't second-guess, to rerun the autotools on the source tree. Whether
or not you, or I, consider this to be right or wrong is beside the
point. There are people such as myself out here who run Gentoo on
commercial servers, who use Courier, and who are stuck with a broken
ebuild. We need to get this thing working. We're not interested in
academic discussion of what a distro should and shouldn't do.
By far the easiest solution would be for you to include the pcp/m4 files
in the source tree. It's less than 150K of space, and will make my life
a _whole_ lot easier, along with probably a number of other folks who
use Gentoo Linux and appreciate the design and quality of Courier.
Getting the Gentoo ebuild maintainer to redesign the way the ebuild
works, or getting the Gentoo Project leaders to move away from the basic
paradigm of the distro is problematic to impossible. You're the man,
Sam. Please help us out here.
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