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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 16:15:05
Message-Id: 1497197692.24558.5.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 11:12, kirjutas William Hubbs:
2 > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 05:35:53PM +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand
3 > wrote:
4 > > On 06/11/2017 05:24 PM, David Seifert wrote:
5 > > > > We can always patch the eclass at that point if that is still a
6 > > > > big
7 > > > > concern, but I fundamentally agree with William on this,
8 > > > > starting
9 > > > > point
10 > > > > should be fixing it upstream, so can start with a tracking bug
11 > > > > on
12 > > > > affected packages.
13 > > > >
14 > > >
15 > > > Here's a deal: you can start filing + fixing them.
16 > > >
17 > >
18 > > The [tracker] is already started, it was determined to add QA
19 > > warning
20 > > with info on filing upstream bugs in [bug 426262] and the proper
21 > > solution is again iterated in [bug 546614], so its not like this is
22 > > a
23 > > new approach that is being suggested, but sure, we should all file
24 > > bugs
25 > > when we encounter them.
26 > >
27 > > References:
28 > > [tracker] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530632
29 > >
30 > > [bug 426262]
31 > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426262
32 > >
33 > > [bug 546614]
34 > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546614
35 >
36 > It seems that the proper fix to this, even for a package that won't
37 > do
38 > the fix upstream is to use WANT_AUTOCONF in the ebuild to force the
39 > version of autoconf you need.
40
41 No. It appears you don't know how WANT_AUTOCONF works.

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