V Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 04:04:35PM +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek napsal(a): > On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 11:16:59AM +0200, Petr Pisar wrote: > > Where should autoreconf be placed? %pre or %conf? > > For me the important distinction is that %prep should *not* execute the > code from the package: it should just unpack, apply patches and fixups, change > permissions, etc. This all should be done using external tools, and not > scripts from the package itself. This way it is possible do 'fedpkg prep' > or equivalent and view the sources without executing any commands from > the package. So even if the package does not want to run on a given > architecture, > or upstream does something stupid or hostile, %prep remains reliable. > (This also means that %prep should rather do less than more.) > > If autoreconf is done using the external 'autoreconf' command, then > %prep seems appropriate. Some packages have ./autogen.sh or similar, and > that I'd put in one of the later sections. > That's a good point. However, autoreconf tool expands m4 macros in configure.ac and whatever aclocal macro directory or file provided with the sources. I'm not an expert in m4, but according to a documentation m4 has recursion and conditions, hence you can have an infinite loop. Thus, in the the manner of your classification, I'd consider autoreconf not to be suitable for %prep.
-- Petr
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