Product: Fedora https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894834
--- Comment #15 from Erik van Pienbroek erik-fedora@vanpienbroek.nl --- (In reply to comment #14)
(In reply to comment #13)
- The autoconf files which are created by this package can be removed
(%{mingw32_datadir}/aclocal/* and %{mingw64_datadir}/aclocal/*) as they're duplicate files which are already provided by their native counterpart
I have a nagging feeling that there must be some case where they are useful.
I would suspect the mingw aclocal files get included when the 'configure' script tries to rebuild itself after the configure.ac timestamp has changed. Not all packages do that, it depends on if/how the AM_MAINTAINER_MODE macro is used.
(This case above can be "fixed" by forcing a rebuild of 'configure' with the native aclocal files by running autoreconf before %mingw_configure.)
I understand the situation you're trying to explain, but afaik autoconf/automake is only aware of /usr/share/data/aclocal. There are no references to /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/data/aclocal in our mingw macros so how is autofoo ever supposed to be aware of files in these folders?