On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:28:33 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 11:37, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > Running auto*/libtool in spec > > files creates dependencies on those tools. This can get unclean when you > > want to build the same src.rpm for multiple distributions or as soon as > > upstream moves to a different (maybe less/not compatible) version of the > > tools. > A proper work-around to auto*tools' issues would be to generate patches > and to apply these patches inside of the specs instead of running the > autotools inside of the specs. I agree with that, and it has been discussed on this list before. However, for a 400 KiB tarball, such a patch can easily grow to a size of above 1 MiB and then doubles the size of the src.rpm easily. Hence I'd like such patches to be merged upstream.
