[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Denis Barbier) writes: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:13:20PM +0200, Maxence Guesdon wrote: >> > > BTW, I'm surprised that autoconf is required since >> > > a configure script is provided. >> > >> > Better ask Maxence on this issue then ... >> >> In fat, i give the .configure script like everyone does, but i give also the >> configure.in script if someone needs to modify it (easier to modify than the >> configure script). The Makefile also contains a target to rebuild itself. >> >> Do you think I should remove this target ? and omve the configure.in script >> in a subdir ? > > $ tar ztvf cameleon_1.1+cvs.20021009.orig.tar.gz | grep configure > -rwxr-xr-x guesdon/cristal 43511 2002-08-26 11:42:25 > cameleon-snapshot/configure > -rw-r--r-- guesdon/cristal 6068 2002-08-26 11:42:26 > cameleon-snapshot/configure.in > [...] > > The configure script is older than configure.in ;) > > A workaround is to touch configure in debian/rules before running > make, but there may be other timestamp problems.
another workaround is for the maintainer to make the new configure before launching dpkg-buildpackage (so that the configure is newer thanks to the patch. -- Rémi Vanicat [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~vanicat
