On 24.5.2010 23.51, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Petteri Räty wrote:
>> On 24.5.2010 1.54, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> ive updated eautomake to run automake in a few more edge cases.  hopefully
>>> this doesnt break anything else (seems to not on my system), but who knows.
>>>
>>> if you see random eautoreconf/eautomake failure, try backing out the
>>> autotools.eclass change first.
>>
>> I think any autotools.eclass behavior changes would benefit from being
>> sent to gentoo-dev for review first.
> 
> if i felt most people had an understanding of how autotools worked let
> alone how autotools.eclass, then perhaps i would
> -mike
> 

And what do you loose by sending them here? The devmanual text strictly
doesn't enforce it but strongly encourages: "Before updating eutils or a
similar widely used eclass, it is best to email the gentoo-dev list."

http://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-writing/index.html

Regards,
Petteri

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