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Please remember to re-run autotools if you change Makefile.am and/or |
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configure.ac (or configure.in if the package uses the old name, or |
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configure.in.in for KDE-based packages). Especially with autoconf 2.62 |
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release this becomes important as some package might try to re-run |
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autotools on its own and find different versions, dying of an horrible |
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death. |
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Also, remember that unless the package you're using is _not_ using |
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automake (and thus aclocal), you should not run eautoconf, but |
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eautoreconf instead. In general if you're unsure, just run eautoreconf. |
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Exception can be made if you only touch Makefile.am, eautomake knows to |
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run eautoreconf if the versions of the tools has changed, but again if |
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you're unsure, just run eautoreconf. |
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Yeah of course it makes waste time to the users to re-run autotools |
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entirely, but it's better making every user waste those 30 seconds |
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rather than having users complain that $foo doesn't build at the next |
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autoconf bump. Or right now considering the amount of packages that |
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fails with autoconf 2.62. |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò |
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http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ |
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