Re: [oe] [PATCH 0/7][RFC] Remove enforced --foreign in autoreconf

2014-07-15 Thread Martin Jansa
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 05:18:30PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > Hi, > > Since 2004 we've been forcibly passing --foreign to automake in autoreconf. > This is a change from upstream behaviour and can actually break packages that > expect GNU behaviour (admittedly the failure case reported was "inter

[oe] [PATCH 0/7][RFC] Remove enforced --foreign in autoreconf

2014-07-15 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, Since 2004 we've been forcibly passing --foreign to automake in autoreconf. This is a change from upstream behaviour and can actually break packages that expect GNU behaviour (admittedly the failure case reported was "interesting"), and I'm on a bit of a mission to remove patches that don't ha