onsdagen den 19 september 2012 12.34.46 skrev Guillaume Rousse: > 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...
Funny... An ignorant, patronizing and belittling responce is what I get on my first ever mail here. I really don't have time with this childish crap. -- Regards // Oden Eriksson Security team manager - Mandriva CEO NUX AB