martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> also sprach Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.17.0033 +0100]:
>> I would just Build-Depend on autoconf, automake, and the like and run
>> them during the build.
>
> This is generally frowned upon in Debian, at least I think they
> should not be
also sprach Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.17.0033 +0100]:
> I would just Build-Depend on autoconf, automake, and the like and run them
> during the build.
This is generally frowned upon in Debian, at least I think they
should not be build dependencies.
See this thread:
http://lists
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:15:00AM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> On su, 2008-02-17 at 01:07 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > Well, tell that to arm or m68k buildds. On some KDE packages,
> > autoconfiguring can *literally* take hours.
>
> Is it just running configure that takes long, or also a
On su, 2008-02-17 at 01:07 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> Well, tell that to arm or m68k buildds. On some KDE packages,
> autoconfiguring can *literally* take hours.
Is it just running configure that takes long, or also automake and
autoconf?
___
vc
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:33:26PM +, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Jan Luebbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I'm trying to come up with a good way to package directly from
> > upstream's git repo, which doesn't contain the files autogenerated by
> > autogen.sh.
>
> I would just Build-Depend on au
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:58:02PM +, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It takes a lot of time, and prevents builds repeatability, in the
> > sense that when autotools have backward compatibility issues, it breaks,
> > not to mention that you need all th
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It takes a lot of time, and prevents builds repeatability, in the
> sense that when autotools have backward compatibility issues, it breaks,
> not to mention that you need all the *.m4 files around to generate the
> configure properly.
I tend to be
Jan Luebbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to come up with a good way to package directly from
> upstream's git repo, which doesn't contain the files autogenerated by
> autogen.sh.
I would just Build-Depend on autoconf, automake, and the like and run them
during the build.
--
Russ Allb
