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From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:37:51
Message-Id: 1125160608.10188.46.camel@lycan.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass by Maurice van der Pot
1 On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 17:51 +0200, Maurice van der Pot wrote:
2 > On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 04:24:40PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
3 > > I still think a autoreconf is usually enough, except for cases where
4 > > that do not work,
5 >
6 > And what is "not work" in this case?
7 > - fails with an error so it's impossible to miss as a dev, or
8 > - fails to do things properly, causing subtle bugs that users will run into
9 >
10
11 Some guy doing a half ass job on writing configure.{ac,in}, Makefile.am
12 and whatever other helper scripts causing either autoreconf to fail, or
13 errors during building.
14
15 Don't ask for an example .. I cannot recall now, but I have run into a
16 few packages in the past.
17
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19 --
20 Martin Schlemmer

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