On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Björn Esser <bjoern.es...@gmail.com> wrote: > I completely agree to this. Using `autoreconf -fi` in %build or %prep > should be mandatory in packages using autotools. This will surely avoid > lots of possible problems caused by just injecting config.{guess,sub} by > %configure.
That would only work if the autotools had perfect backwards compatibility. They don't. I maintain multiple packages where "autoreconf -fi" with modern autotools fails due to use of obsolete macros. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel