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[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/tree/bin/autoreconf.in#n356
Pavel
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From: Pavel Raiskup
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:42:25 +0100
Subject: [P
> It's what I've done for years. Does it get rid of the problem? I don't
> think so but for legacy code that is no longer being maintained, either
> you maintain it, or the problem exists into infinity with a hard stop
> when someone does maintain it. I think the battle is trying to overcome
> c
> >> Works for me. But we [distros] do want to mandate autoreconf anyway in the
> >> general case: it is the *only* way to keep upstream honest about the much
> >> hated build system not bitrotting until it decides to blow up right when we
> >> need it for a security update.
> >
> >I know. But th
> Works for me. But we [distros] do want to mandate autoreconf anyway in the
> general case: it is the *only* way to keep upstream honest about the much
> hated build system not bitrotting until it decides to blow up right when we
> need it for a security update.
I know. But there is a lot of ta
> > pros: we are able to easily patch also old packages (no-need to
> > autoreconfigure)
>
> There would still be a long bootstrap period where old tarballs would
> not have any way of running a modern config.sub/guess other than copying
> them in from the system versions.
I meant that you are ab
+cc config-patc...@gnu.org, Ben Elliston
> IME, it is much better when any override mechanism make use of
> environment variables.
Yes, it was mentioned multiple times in this thread already and it was
always forgotten. Please consider this approach.
One thing was not mentioned here - if there
Hi, there is small artifact in man/autoupdate.x:
diff --git a/man/autoupdate.x b/man/autoupdate.x
index 40d24e2..4182cd1 100644
--- a/man/autoupdate.x
+++ b/man/autoupdate.x
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
[name]
-autoupdate \- Update a configure.in to a newer Autoconf
+autoupdate \- Update a configure.ac to a n
