On 08/10/2009 11:44 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > They are very easy to demonstrate. Commonly known cases are building > gcc, binutils, gdb, firefox etc. Are these of the sort where a bug is reported, it's found that autotools made a bad decision, and then patching autotools fixed the problem? I'd like to read through such a bug report to learn more, if you can think of one easily. > Other cases are pretty easy to find. Actually, probably almost any > non-trivial, complex package has such issues. I don't _seem_ to have trouble rebuilding SRPM's (including some of the above cited) that I see are running autoconf. I'm curious to understand why or what I'm missing. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Email, IM, VOIP: bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Twitter, etc.: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
