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Message-ID: <710052.87607...@web26505.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 16:21:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Hobley <markhob...@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: markhob...@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: Bug #546445: A revised m4sh.m4 may be ineffective
To: Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu>
In-Reply-To: <87sk2w22bn....@benpfaff.org>
--- On Mon, 2/8/10, Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Why are you modifying
> /usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/m4sh.m4?
It doesn't work properly on my ash shell, (there are some constructs that
autoconf uses, that are not considered), and I have problems sharing scripts
between machines, because autoconf makes decisions based on the test machine,
which do not apply to the target.
> Local changes to these .m4 files are not
> anticipated in the
> packaging (and that's why it doesn't work).
Really, this is a bad design. If the sources are newer than the frozen files or
the cache, then the frozen files or cache should be updated. (We could use make
here.)
> please let me
> know so that I can close the bug.
I have forked this package, and I am making appropriate modifications to the
fork. I would just forward the bug information upstream, then close the bug.
(The problem only affects programs that are build from source, and Debian does
not do this.)
Cheers,
Mark.
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