Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > Correct - I didn't mean to offend Tom, but it's obvious, that some > people around in this thread don't understand the autotools. > > If people were understanding them, they would not run the autotools > inside of rpm.specs but would apply patches. Please enlighten us. AFAIU, the objective of autotools is to detect the environment's quirks and configure the package accordingly. They were designed to take a set of input files, and creating the configuration (and Makefile) for the package on the fly. In view of the above, it does make sense to run them when installing. That is their whole point. If there are reasons to bypass them, they aren't doing their job; which is a bug that should be fixed. As Fedora is (mostly) made up of new(ish) packages, so there should be few problems with version skew. So I (as an ousider here, I have used auto* quite a bit on a variety of Unixy systems, but haven't written a line for it) am at a total loss with your comments. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 2340000 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
