On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 14:53:08 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: > > It would be nice to have a way to get dh_auto_configure to call > > 'autoreconf -vfi' or something similar if there's a configure.ac file > > but no configure script. > > My impression, which might be wrong, but is based on messing with a fair > number of such packages, is that the specific auto* invocation needed > varies per-package, and can only be determined by trial and error, or a > detailed look at the source/docs. Which is why I decided to leave that > out.
In all the packages I'm working with, plain autoreconf just works (and figures out which commands it needs to run). But maybe I'm lucky and there are cases where that breaks, that's certainly possible. > But you can run whatever commands are appropriate by hand of course, before > calling dh_auto_configure. For example, in aalib, I have: > > libtoolize --force > aclocal > autoheader > automake --add-missing > autoconf > dh_auto_configure -- --with-curses-driver > OK, thanks. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
