Hi Dave.
I have just noticed that for config.guess and config.sub to be updated, no
autoreconf or dh_autotools-dev is needed, because of how Makefile was made.
In Makefile, @row 80:
LIBTOOLIZE_INSTALL = `libtoolize -n -i >/dev/null 2>/dev/null && echo -i`
configure:
libtoolize -c $(LIBTOOLIZE_INSTALL) -f
cp include/install-sh .
aclocal -I m4
autoconf
This runs libtoolize -c -i which updates those files.
The file debian/rules runs `make default`, which at some point calls the target
above (`make configure`). But the file configure already exists, so it does not
run.
Curiously, running `dpkg-buildpackage` twice, causes configure file to be
deleted, and the build completes without errors.
So, answering to your question:
> Nowdays, the generated files in the 3.2.4 tarball created via a
> 'make dist' rule. I run that on an up to date debian unstable box
> with autoconfig 2.69 installed to generate the files, so the
> question I have is this: why is an up-to-date build box generating
> "out of date" configure/m4 scripts? What, exactly, is out of date,
> and how do I ensure that the pre-build config files are correctly
> up-to-date?
The configure file comes shipped with the debian package, so that specific file
is not re-generated and is always out of date.
By the looks of the Makefile, there is no need to include autoreconf or
autotools-dev in debian/rules, but to force `make distclean` to `rm configure`.
Attached is a patch that summarizes that, but for some reason it does not work
when running with parallel jobs enabled. But you can get the idea :)
Regards.
--
Fernando Seiti Furusato
IBM Linux Technology Center
diff -Nru xfsprogs-3.2.4/debian/changelog
xfsprogs-3.2.4ppc64el1/debian/changelog
--- xfsprogs-3.2.4/debian/changelog 2015-07-30 03:45:12.000000000 -0400
+++ xfsprogs-3.2.4ppc64el1/debian/changelog 2015-08-04 11:07:37.000000000
-0400
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+xfsprogs (3.2.4ppc64el1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * debian/rules: removed usage of dh_autoreconf since it is not necessary.
+ * Makefile: change distclean target to remove configure every time.
+
+ -- Fernando Seiti Furusato <ferse...@br.ibm.com> Tue, 04 Aug 2015 11:07:01
-0400
+
xfsprogs (3.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release
diff -Nru xfsprogs-3.2.4/debian/rules xfsprogs-3.2.4ppc64el1/debian/rules
--- xfsprogs-3.2.4/debian/rules 2014-11-09 19:51:18.000000000 -0500
+++ xfsprogs-3.2.4ppc64el1/debian/rules 2015-08-04 11:06:56.000000000 -0400
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
.census:
@echo "== dpkg-buildpackage: configure" 1>&2
$(checkdir)
- AUTOHEADER=/bin/true dh_autoreconf
$(options) $(MAKE) include/platform_defs.h
touch .census
@@ -58,7 +57,6 @@
$(MAKE) distclean
-rm -rf $(dirme) $(dirdev) $(dirdi)
-rm -f debian/*substvars debian/files* debian/*.debhelper
- dh_autoreconf_clean
dh_clean
binary-indep:
diff -Nru xfsprogs-3.2.4/Makefile xfsprogs-3.2.4ppc64el1/Makefile
--- xfsprogs-3.2.4/Makefile 2013-10-10 17:07:16.000000000 -0400
+++ xfsprogs-3.2.4ppc64el1/Makefile 2015-08-04 11:06:40.000000000 -0400
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(MAKEOPTS) -C $* install-qa
distclean: clean
- $(Q)rm -f $(LDIRT)
+ $(Q)rm -f $(LDIRT) $(CONFIGURE)
realclean: distclean
$(Q)rm -f $(CONFIGURE) .gitcensus
