On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Paul Wise wrote: > Does your autogen.sh script ever become anything more than calling > autoreconf with some specific options?
Yes. I think it was Cyrus IMAP that required -I in places where autoreconf doesn't reach, so I called each tool separately. Which is obviously a problem in autoreconf. > > 3. I always hook the debian package to retool on package build. I have > ... > > 4. Just deal with the annoyance in the debian clean target, but do use > ... > > 5. Cheerfully ignore any purists complaining that debian/rules clean does > > not restore whatever crap was there upstream. > > I generally don't bother with these unless I'm patching the autotools > source files (configure.ac/Makefile.am). I'm increasingly being > convinced that doing it in all autotools-based packages is a good > idea. If you get it right, and life for anyone doing an NMU suddenly is much easier. That's why I do it on all my packages, even if I don't have to patch configure.ac or Makefile.am at the moment. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110317130818.ga1...@khazad-dum.debian.net
