On 9 Aug., 18:29, Jeroen Demeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-08-09 17:44, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > Ok so what's the point of having an autotools package? > > It's meant for people needing to patch configure.ac (and hence also > configure) files. It would allow you to re-generate configure from > configure.ac using the *same* version of autoconf, such that the patch > to configure will (hopefully) be small.
It would probably make sense to ship newest versions of [m4 and] libtool, config.sub and config.guess and use these for all spkgs using autotools. An optional developer spkg with [probably a couple of different versions of] autotools doesn't have to (or shouldn't) contain the former. W.r.t. the "moving target" (vbraun), my impression is that the situation today is much better than years ago, where different versions of automake and autoconf were very likely to be incompatible to each other. -leif -- -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
