On Seg, 2013-06-17 at 08:43 -0600, Jerry James wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Björn Esser <bjoern.esser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I completely agree to this. Using `autoreconf -fi` in %build or %prep > > should be mandatory in packages using autotools. This will surely avoid > > lots of possible problems caused by just injecting config.{guess,sub} by > > %configure. > > That would only work if the autotools had perfect backwards > compatibility. They don't. I maintain multiple packages where > "autoreconf -fi" with modern autotools fails due to use of obsolete > macros. What you are writing is not much common. In fact some times I had to do the opposite, which is : run autoreconf because we have errors with configure . -- Sérgio M. B. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel