Mass Rebuild for Fedora 19

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 11:19:10 UTC 2013


On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>> Additionally we will be mass patching config.guess and config.sub to
>> support aarch64 in preperation for 64 bit arm support
>
> Ugh, this really shows how bundled autocrap sucks!
>
> How are you going to determine the packages that need patching? Anything
> running autoreconf, ./autogen.sh, KDE 3's "make -f admin/Makefile.common
> cvs" or similar should not need patching (and in fact, IMHO, this should be
> a requirement for autotools-based packages, exactly for this reason!).

Nor should anything that's run their "make dist" tarball process with
the latest tools. Jon Masters was going to confirm if anything was
needed for cmake and any other non autotools build tools too.

Peter


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