On 26/06/13 15:01, Allan McRae wrote: > The use of autotools in pacman is interesting... We commit most autotools > generated files, but not configure or Makefile. One reason for this is that > we needed to patch ltmain.sh to properly handle -Wl,-as-needed, because > the Arch package maintainer refused to do so unless upstream accepts! > Libtool upstream have known about the bug since at least 2006, so that does > not look hopeful. > > The new approach is to have autogen.sh call autoreconf and then have it > patch the ltmain.sh file. This removes a lot of crap that should be > autogenerated from our git repo: > 38 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 28256 deletions(-) >
Has anyone already got a VM that could do some more testing of this for me? Perhaps with a VM that does not have gpgme? Maybe curl too? Thanks, Allan
