On 01/24/2015 03:14 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I notice that Debian recently [since July 2014] started to recommend
that packagers run autoreconf on build. Their reasons are given here
and seem to be good ones:
https://wiki.debian.org/Autoreconf
In the interests of fairness I can think of two drawbacks too:
- newer versions of (especially) automake have not always been
improvements, and some upstreams may wish to stick with older ones
- autoreconf is slow
Debian have probably hit most of the bugs by now, and I think this is
a good recommendation that perhaps Fedora packagers should be
encouraged to follow too. What do you think?
This is bad advice.
Autoreconf only works if a package has been prepared for it and if a
package is actively maintained.
In many other cases autoreconf can cause subtile and hard to find
issues. In complex cases, it doesn't work at all.
Ralf
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