Le 19/09/2012 10:55, Oden Eriksson a écrit :
Hello people.
Someone was wondering why i added autogen.sh in libxslt. There is a reason for
this after long time maintaining open source softwares. See it as a "last
known good" way of using the autopoo stuff as done upstream.
Just because you never understood autoconf is not an excuse to use such
kind of derogative comments.
If "autoreconf -
fi" should ever fail in libxslt use the provided autogen.sh file. These files
tends to disappear or be moved to the upstream release managers private hard
drive only, or something like that. It's simply wise to keep autogen.sh for
ourselves for reference. If you don't need to use it, fine, but keep it.
Those dedicated scripts disappear because they are now obsoletes in
favor of a generic solution maintained upstream. You'd better find an
actual case where using the standard tool fails, whereas using such kind
of ad-hoc wrapper works, before bloating packages with useless hacks.
BTW, libxslt builds perfectly without ever regenerating the build system...
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SCSI's too wide.
