On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:47:07AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Patches? ... Patches created by regenerating modified autotools
> input files?
>
> That won't be different from running autotools at build-time. With one
> exception: you get a chance to examine the patch and verify it and the
> results it produces -- you can't do that with unattended rebuilds in a
> build system where the autotools versions may change any time and cause
> unexpected side-effects.
In some theoretical world perhaps.
In reality though - the patches are full of unintended changes (eg.
if there is a change of autoconf), and even if you get a minimal
patch, it's still a patch to some giant shell script which is very
hard to verify. Also in the real world, builds don't tend to break
because of autotools changes, and if they do, they're much simpler to
fix.
Don't believe me? Let's try it:
I ran autoreconf then made a tiny change to a configure file, then
ran autoreconf again to compare configure before and afterwards.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7fe1ebe..e77a230 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ AC_PROG_CC
gl_EARLY
AM_PROG_CC_C_O
+AC_PROG_CPP
AC_PROG_INSTALL
AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
Here's the patch to configure which we are proposing from now on to
add to Fedora CVS because the change is "easier to understand" or
something.
--- configure.orig 2009-02-26 11:32:27.000000000 +0000
+++ configure 2009-02-26 11:37:52.000000000 +0000
@@ -808,7 +808,6 @@
ac_ct_CXX
CXXFLAGS
CXX
-CPP
NMEDIT
DSYMUTIL
RANLIB
@@ -818,6 +817,7 @@
EGREP
GREP
SED
+CPP
am__fastdepCC_FALSE
am__fastdepCC_TRUE
CCDEPMODE
@@ -3858,6 +3858,242 @@
fi
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+ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking how to run the C preprocessor" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking how to run the C preprocessor... " >&6; }
+# On Suns, sometimes $CPP names a directory.
+if test -n "$CPP" && test -d "$CPP"; then
+ CPP=
+fi
+if test -z "$CPP"; then
+ if test "${ac_cv_prog_CPP+set}" = set; then
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+else
+ # Double quotes because CPP needs to be expanded
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+ do
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+for ac_c_preproc_warn_flag in '' yes
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+ # Prefer <limits.h> to <assert.h> if __STDC__ is defined, since
+ # <limits.h> exists even on freestanding compilers.
+ # On the NeXT, cc -E runs the code through the compiler's parser,
+ # not just through cpp. "Syntax error" is here to catch this case.
+ cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
+/* confdefs.h. */
+_ACEOF
+cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
+cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
+/* end confdefs.h. */
+#ifdef __STDC__
+# include <limits.h>
+#else
+# include <assert.h>
+#endif
+ Syntax error
+_ACEOF
+if { (ac_try="$ac_cpp conftest.$ac_ext"
+case "(($ac_try" in
+ *\"* | *\`* | *\\*) ac_try_echo=\$ac_try;;
+ *) ac_try_echo=$ac_try;;
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+eval ac_try_echo="\"\$as_me:$LINENO: $ac_try_echo\""
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+ (eval "$ac_cpp conftest.$ac_ext") 2>conftest.er1
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+ rm -f conftest.er1
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+ }; then
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+
+ # OK, works on sane cases. Now check whether nonexistent headers
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+ cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
+/* confdefs.h. */
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+cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
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+if $ac_preproc_ok; then
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+ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu
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# Find a good install program. We prefer a C program (faster),
# so one script is as good as another. But avoid the broken or
@@ -4649,7 +4885,7 @@
;;
*-*-irix6*)
# Find out which ABI we are using.
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+ echo '#line 4888 "configure"' > conftest.$ac_ext
if { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_compile\"") >&5
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ac_status=$?
@@ -4844,242 +5080,6 @@
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