Re: [Mageia-dev] autogen.sh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 19/09/2012 10:55, Oden Eriksson ha scritto: 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. 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. I'm not against on having stuff that simplify our life in building packages, but i have a question what does autogen.sh that does not work with the standard sequence (more or less always the same)?: libtoolize aclocal automake --add-missing autoconf Just wonder... Cheers, Angelo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBa3J4ACgkQqEs9DA4DquAqEQCeK3H5KHMEzOS6qooWMn8puYI6 028Anj4jlWlO4l2suPdtQOwAHl8r8k5I =44Mc -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[Mageia-dev] autogen.sh
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. 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. -- Regards // Oden Eriksson Security team manager - Mandriva CEO NUX AB
Re: [Mageia-dev] autogen.sh
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... -- BOFH excuse #189: SCSI's too wide.
Re: [Mageia-dev] autogen.sh
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
Re: [Mageia-dev] autogen.sh
'Twas brillig, and Oden Eriksson at 19/09/12 09:55 did gyre and gimble: 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. 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. autogen.sh or bootstrap.sh and similar scripts are usually in upstream SCM repositories but simply are often marked as NODIST or similar such that they do not make it into tarballs (that's not always the case - it varies from project to project). They are typically just wrappers around various auto* stuff, but 9 times out of 10 if you change some of the .am or .in files in patches, you don't need to redo the full bootstrap process, it's often just a matter of calling autoreconf or similar. But this is also only needed if: 1. We apply patches that touch some of the .am/.in files. or 2. The system on which make dist was run is somehow very broken and doesn't play nice with our environment (quite rare) I don't see either being true in the libxslt case so I wonder why autogen.sh is needed to make it build? Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
