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

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