On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:09:51PM -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > 2. improves the resiliency of the package build to changes to > Fedora's autotools chain. Many projects come with public source repositories, and those don't include the binary configure/Makefile.in files. You usually build those locally with a script like 'autogen.sh'. Projects that depend on precise versions of the autotools are just going to break under those conditions. libguestfs is a case in point - the Debian maintainer builds it from git using some unknown version of autoconf, and I build it on RHEL and Fedora using other versions of autoconf. If there was a bug reported to me that configure.ac didn't work on (eg.) Debian's autoconf, I'd consider it a bug in the project itself, and I wouldn't tell the Debian maintainer to install a specific autoconf. It's better in the long term to fix the configure.ac so that it can work with any version of autotools. If it requires some specific version or a narrow range of versions, I'd consider it broken. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 75 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
