Calling autoconf in a spec.

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun Jul 3 20:31:41 UTC 2011


Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Ok, then when you patch configure.in, configure.ac, and/or Makefile.am, be
> sure to also specify:
> 
> BuildRequires: autoconf=[version]
> 
> and
> 
> BuildRequires: automake=[version]
> 
> in order to have a reproducible build.

Nonsense. Even many upstreams do that. (I know I don't. On the autocrap-
using projects I inherited, I just run "autoreconf -i -f" with whatever 
version I have on my system and ignore all the warnings.)

        Kevin Kofler



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