On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 10:22:47AM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > 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.
Ah, I didn't know this part of the story. Thanks for the insights. > Two of the other patches are touching configure(.ac) anyway to tweak > compiler flags (reproducibility, aarch64 tweaks). Is reproducibility something you've brought to a separate thread? FWIW, I'd be interested in improving this area for the in-core code, if need be. (Not material for this thread, of course). -- Michael
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