Re: [gentoo-dev] Why autoconf in system?

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 10:38 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 12 September 2005 08:58 am, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> > > Hi, as I mentioned, I built LFS without this (and I have coreutils on
> > > it ;)
> > >
> > > Not at all - if we need to modify or create configure files during build
> > > as Paul and Martin said ... we need autoconf/automake
> >
> > And furthermore, many programs (or upstream authors if you prefer) are
> > braindead and don't know what some non-x86 arches are without updating
> > the config.sub/config.guess, and re-running autoconf/automake.
>
> those two files dont require re-running autoconf/automake
>
> it isnt uncommon though to have upstream run autotools in the wrong order and
> package the result as their release ... then when you run `./configure &&
> make`, the build system has mismatched timestamps and thus tries to invoke
> autotools to fix itself :/

Toss in libtool in the mess, and it runs aclocal, autoconf and then
automake, and you end up with a mismatched ltmain.sh and whatever
macro's of libtool expanded in configure, causing either breakage
(random or not), or in our case an error informing about the mismatch :/


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Martin Schlemmer