Re: [gentoo-embedded] configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Kfir Lavi <lavi.kfir@×××××.com> schrieb:

> > Patching autogenerated files is not a good idea - change the
> > actual source and regenerate.
> >
> In the ACE files they ask not to generate configure alone.

Well, not the first time I hear upstreams confusing intermediate
files w/ actual sources (yes, there're also folks who include
precompiled binaries, which are run and later recompiled within
the build process ;-o). A very good indicator for something
completely conceptionally wrong in here ;-p

My approach (which I'm doing in the OSS-QM project) is radically
clear: autogenerated files *must* be regenerated on each build.
If this doesn't work, the source is broken and has to be fixed,
period ;-p

I'm even going farer: if upstream has an proper vcs, I take the
releases from there, completely regenerating everything from
scratch. All fixes are done within my VCS (essentially, I always
have my own releases ontop the upstream's, as git tags). Sometimes
you encounter packages, eg. coreutils, which doing really messy
things like pulling in another tree via git and copying in files
from there - a nightmare for packagers ;-o

> So I tried it ;)
> But had problem to finish.
> My guess they still tweak by hand.

WTF ? Tweak autoconf-generated files by hand ? Oh, I don't even
wanna know which drugs they're on ;-)


cu
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