On Sunday 13 November 2011 12:45:50 Samuli Suominen wrote:
> On 11/13/2011 07:37 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > but i've hit this since with cross-compiling Linux targets:
> >     - pygobject ebuild inherits gnome2 eclass
> >     - pygobject's src_prepare first calls gnome2_src_prepare
> >     - gnome2_src_prepare always calls elibtoolize (which normally is good)
> >     - pygobject's src_prepare applies patches and then calls eautoreconf
> >     - eautoreconf regens all files that where patched earlier
> >     - eautoreconf's call to elibtoolize is skipped
> >     - builds fail which need those elibtoolize patches
> 
> also a bug in those ebuilds then, since gnome2_src_prepare() should
> always be the last call/command in src_prepare()

yes, but the current state is that people don't notice and things silently 
break.  i'm turning the situation into a QA warning so bug reports get 
filed/fixed, and things continue to work in the mean time.
-mike

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