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From: Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass: automatically move configure.in to configure.ac
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 15:07:46
Message-Id: 1497193653.24558.2.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass: automatically move configure.in to configure.ac by William Hubbs
1 Ühel kenal päeval, P, 11.06.2017 kell 10:00, kirjutas William Hubbs:
2 > On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 01:04:06PM +0100, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
3 > > On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 13:28:19 +0200
4 > > Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426262
7 > > > + mv configure.{in,ac} || die
8 > >
9 > > Looks good.
10 > >
11 > > -- 
12 > >
13 > >   Sergei
14 >
15 > -1
16 >
17 > I think this should be handled by the packages, not at the eclass
18 > level.
19 >
20 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426262#c3
21 >
22 > The packages should either mv the configure.in to configure.ac
23 > internally, or better yet, the maintainers should ask upstream for
24 > their
25 > packages to fix it.
26
27 +1, otherwise we will never be able to add/unmask a newer autoconf that
28 doesn't look at configure.in anymore, once such a version eventually
29 happens.

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