On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 04:47:27PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > Over time, Fedora and RHEL RPMs have often backported upstream > patches that touched configure.ac and/or Makefile.am; this > necessitates rerunning the autotools for the patch to be effective. > Making this a one-liner spec tweak will make it easier for future > backports to pull patches without having to find all the places > to touch to properly use the autotools. Meanwhile, there have been > historical instances where an update in the autotools caused FTBFS > situations, so this is not on by default. > > * libvirt.spec.in (BuildRequires): Add autotools. > (%build): Conditionally use them before configure. > --- > > v2: switch default value of %enable_autotools > > libvirt.spec.in | 13 +++++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in > index 97b811d..c2c926d 100644 > --- a/libvirt.spec.in > +++ b/libvirt.spec.in > @@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ > sed -ne 's/^\.fc\?\([0-9]\+\).*/%%define fedora \1/p')} > %endif > > +# Default to skipping autoreconf. Distros can change just this one line > +# (or provide a command-line override) if they backport any patches that > +# touch configure.ac or Makefile.am. > +%{?enable_autotools:%define enable_autotools 0} > + > # A client only build will create a libvirt.so only containing > # the generic RPC driver, and test driver and no libvirtd > # Default to a full server + client build > @@ -349,6 +354,11 @@ Requires(postun): systemd-units > %endif > > # All build-time requirements > +%if 0%{?enable_autotools} > +BuildRequires: autoconf > +BuildRequires: automake > +BuildRequires: libtool > +%endif > BuildRequires: python-devel > %if %{with_systemd} > BuildRequires: systemd-units > @@ -729,6 +739,9 @@ of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). > %define init_scripts --with-init_script=redhat > %endif > > +%if 0%{?enable_autotools} > +autoreconf -if > +%endif > %configure %{?_without_xen} \ > %{?_without_qemu} \ > %{?_without_openvz} \ ACK Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list