On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 09:13:54AM +0200, Niels de Vos wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 09:29:36PM -0400, Kaleb Keithley wrote: > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Niels de Vos" <[email protected]> > > > To: "Emmanuel Dreyfus" <[email protected]> > > > Cc: [email protected], "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <[email protected]>, > > > [email protected] > > > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 5:34:48 PM > > > Subject: Re: [gluster-packaging] [Gluster-Maintainers] glusterfs-3.8rc1 > > > has been released for testing > > > > > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 09:11:01PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > > > > Niels de Vos <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Patrick filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1223937 for this during the > > > > > 3.7 timeframe. I'm tempted to add the need to run autoreconf in the > > > > > release notes unless someone really wants the config.sub/guess files > > > > > back (we'll need to update the tools on the buildserver, but I would > > > > > consider that a good thing anyway). > > > > > > > > Please do not add autotools as a build dependency : It just works with > > > > an empty config.sub file, > > > > > > Oh, that's genius! We can add an empty shell script that has a comment > > > with suggesting to run "autoreconf --force". Some packaging environments > > > prefer that in any case (Debian, I think) and Fedora even replaces the > > > files automatically with their own updated copies (%configure). > > > > Either an empty one or an up to date one from the latest version(s) of > > autoconf/automake. > > > > I'm not sure I know which is the better choice. Do you? > > I would go for the most practical choice. An empty (except for some > comments) config.{guess,sub} and a note in the INSTALL file about it. If > we would update those files from a more current version, we have to > track future updates as well. My preference goes to solutions where we > do not bundle any copies (script or other files) from other projects.
This patch should work nicely, in case ./configure does not receive all requirement options (--build and --host), the scripts will complain about it. http://review.gluster.org/14503 I'd appreciate it if others could review and give some comments on it. Thanks, Niels
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