Re: What do we think about always autoreconfing?

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On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 8:24 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Richard W. M. Jones:
>
> > Hijacking this thread originally about
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Autoconf_271
> >
> > What is the current thinking in Fedora about always running
> > "autoreconf -i" during builds that use autotools?
>
> I would prefer to do it because it aligns with Fedora's goal to build
> from sources.  But I expect it to be quite a bit of work.  Maybe not for
> each package on its own, but certainly across the entire distribution.
>

I'd advocate for that as well. It brings us in-line with other build
scripts and guarantees that everything actually works.

As I said previously[1], I think doing autoconf upgrades would be less
painful if we always did that.

[1]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/ZZG3SNLFS7BSXQ3JFJDOWUS3WWGTGLR2/



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