On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 19:04 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 14:53:08 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Julien Cristau wrote: > > > It would be nice to have a way to get dh_auto_configure to call > > > 'autoreconf -vfi' or something similar if there's a configure.ac file > > > but no configure script. > > > > My impression, which might be wrong, but is based on messing with a fair > > number of such packages, is that the specific auto* invocation needed > > varies per-package, and can only be determined by trial and error, or a > > detailed look at the source/docs. Which is why I decided to leave that > > out. > > In all the packages I'm working with, plain autoreconf just works (and > figures out which commands it needs to run). But maybe I'm lucky and > there are cases where that breaks, that's certainly possible.
I've had exactly the same experience: autoreconf -fi Just Works. I think it would prove very useful to just assume that autoreconf -fi will work, and allow the caller to override that if necessary. They can always do this: dh --before autofoo # Magic autofoo invocations that autoreconf doesn't do automatically dh --after autofoo Better yet, they could send in a patch to autoreconf. :) - Josh Triplett
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