On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:40:57PM +0200, Stefan Bühler wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:31:46 +0100 > Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm not sure what --with=autotools_dev does exactly, but I'd like to > > > point out that autoconf is often incompatible across versions > > > > Not relevant; the autotools-dev debhelper add-on only updates > > config.guess and config.sub, which are highly compatible across > > versions. As expected, the current version builds just fine on arm64 > > once config.guess and config.sub are brought up to date. > > Thanks, good to know! > > Sounds like this should be standard for all autotool-build based > packages;
Yes; /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz has lots of advice on this. > maybe the lintian check for "outdated-autotools-helper-file" > (I think that is what made me remove the old files, but apparently I > didn't read the extended description back then) should be more strict > and not care about the time stamp at all. I suspect the extended description has been improved since then. It's hard to tell entirely programmatically whether a package updates config.guess/config.sub during build - there are several ways to do so, and a number of possible layouts - which is why it's timestamp-based and we bump the timestamp for new ports. The check is actually fairly sophisticated if you read its code, though. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
