Thomas Kahle wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 08/11/2009 11:42 PM, Thomas Kahle wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm having some autotools trouble. 

Ok, got it. It is an "--as-needed" thing. Now god, help me with this...


In an ebuild I use sed to modify
>>> configure.ac with something like
>>>
>>> sed "s/\"-lntl\"/\"-lntl\" \"-lgf2x -lntl\"/" -i "${S}/configure.ac"
>>>
>>> make configure is run by the ebuild after this!
>> "make configure"?  Don't you need eautoreconf?
> I dont know. I suppose not. How this package is supposed to be compiled is:
> 
> make configure
> configure
> make
> make install
> 
> since I do the sed'ing of configure.ac before 'make configure' (which
> created 'configure' script in the first place) I assume that eautoreconf
> is not needed. I still tried it in 'various places' but no success. Let
> me say again that I checked that the configure script is actually
> modified and running the parts of the ebuild outside of portage works as
> it should.
> 


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Thomas Kahle

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mathematical theorem it can be applied free of charge and everybody
has access to its proof and can convince himself how it works. Why
should software be any different?