On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Thomas Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:53:21AM +0100, Jaroslav Hajek wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Thomas Weber >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm currently faced with a (non-standard) bug report against octgrp in >> > Debian[1]. It fails to build on the sh4 architecture. This boils down to >> > an old autoconf used to build the configure script and should be fixed >> > from autoconf 2.63 onwards. >> > >> > However, octgrp ships it's own configure script in the archive. Is it >> > okay if I update it (I will need to change configure.in as well): >> > >> > $ autoreconf >> > configure.in:45: error: AC_SUBST: `FPICFLAG CPICFLAG' is not a valid >> > shell variable name >> > configure.in:45: the top level >> > autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 >> > aclocal: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1 >> > autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1 >> > >> > Or should just the configure.in stay in the archive? >> > >> >> I believe configure must be present in the tarball that is used for >> installation; otherwise, Octave will fail to install because it >> doesn't run autoconf. I've put it into SVN as well because then it's >> easier to install straight from SVN. > > Thanks, but my question still stands: are you fine with me putting a > newer configure script into SVN? > > Thomas >
Sure. If it should be there at all, but perhaps Soren can clarify that. -- RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD computing expert & GNU Octave developer Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU) Prague, Czech Republic url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
