Re: Michael Paquier > This one comes down to Debian that patches autoconf with its own set > of options, requiring a new ./configure in the tree, right?
Yes, mostly. Since autoconf had not seen a new release for so long, everyone started to patch it, and one of the things that Debian and others added was --runstatedir=DIR. The toolchain is also using it, it's part of the default set of options used by dh_auto_configure. In parallel, the standard debhelper toolchain also started to run autoreconf by default, so instead of telling dh_auto_configure to omit --runstatedir, it was really easier to patch configure.ac to remove the autoconf 2.69 check. Two of the other patches are touching configure(.ac) anyway to tweak compiler flags (reproducibility, aarch64 tweaks). Christoph
