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 on the side that says that the input files to autotools are the real source and it's usually better to build the whole package from source, particularly when upstream isn't shipping pre-built files for convenience. It does mean that part of the build process is arch-independent, but generally running the autotools doesn't take *that* long compared to the actual compilation, and it's hardly the only arch-independent part of package builds we have. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ vcs-pkg mailing list vcs-pkg@lists.madduck.net http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-pkg
