Calling autoconf in a spec.

Mon Jul 4 02:45:36 UTC 2011

On 07/03/2011 10:31 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 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.
Correct. The autotools are not guaranteed to be backward-compatible.
Therefore, blindly running some arbitrary version of the autotools on an 
arbitrary source tree often (and very often silently) breaks building.

> Even many upstreams do that.
This is only possibile in simple cases and if upstreams write proper 
configurations - Many projects do not.