R: Re: Calling autoconf in a spec.

[pinto.elia at gmail.com]

Sorry for not quoting. Btw, i in rhel5 have packaged the latest autoconf, automake and libtool in such a way that if installed the packager can use it without upgrading the rhel5 package and without conflict of any sort : not so hard to do with rpm. Dunno if my approch was the best, or if it is really useful. Best regards
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Da: Richard W.M. Jones
Inviato:  04/07/2011, 12:39 
A: Development discussions related to Fedora
Cc: ankursinha at fedoraproject.org
Oggetto: Re: Calling autoconf in a spec.



On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 11:45:09AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> FWIW, I used to run autoconf during the builds of both the postgresql
> and mysql packages for many years.  That eventually became unnecessary
> in both cases, but I don't recall that autoconf changes ever caused me
> any trouble.  (gcc, on the other hand, ...)

We've been bitten with very old versions of autoconf (hello, RHEL 5).
In those cases we've had to patch the generated files instead of the
autoconf input files.  It's a pain in the derriere doing this.

However this is not a reason not to rerun autoconf.  If rerunning
autoconf is going to fail, then it will fail early and obviously.
This problem isn't likely to affect Fedora because Fedora usually has
the latest autotools.

Packagers should use their discretion (as in many other cases).

Rich.

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