Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass: automatically move configure.in to configure.ac

[William Hubbs]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 07:14:52PM +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> Ühel kenal päeval, P, 11.06.2017 kell 11:12, kirjutas William Hubbs:
> > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 05:35:53PM +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand
> > wrote:
> > > On 06/11/2017 05:24 PM, David Seifert wrote:
> > > > > We can always patch the eclass at that point if that is still a
> > > > > big
> > > > > concern, but I fundamentally agree with William on this,
> > > > > starting
> > > > > point
> > > > > should be fixing it upstream, so can start with a tracking bug
> > > > > on
> > > > > affected packages.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Here's a deal: you can start filing + fixing them.
> > > >
> > >
> > > The [tracker] is already started, it was determined to add QA
> > > warning
> > > with info on filing upstream bugs in [bug 426262] and the proper
> > > solution is again iterated in [bug 546614], so its not like this is
> > > a
> > > new approach that is being suggested, but sure, we should all file
> > > bugs
> > > when we encounter them.
> > >
> > > References:
> > > [tracker] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530632
> > >
> > > [bug 426262]
> > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426262
> > >
> > > [bug 546614]
> > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546614
> >
> > It seems that the proper fix to this, even for a package that won't
> > do
> > the fix upstream is to use WANT_AUTOCONF in the ebuild to force the
> > version of autoconf you need.
>
> No. It appears you don't know how WANT_AUTOCONF works.
 
 From the eclass:

# @ECLASS-VARIABLE: WANT_AUTOCONF
# @DESCRIPTION:
# The major version of autoconf your package needs

That leads me to believe that you can set WANT_AUTOCONF="someversion"
in your ebuild and your package will use that version of autoconf.

If that's wrong, it needs to be fixed and that's a different bug
entirely, but it doesn't change my position on adding this particular
change to autotools.eclass.

William