Re: [gentoo-dev] patch for aclocal wraper

[Ned Ludd]

Mike was not kidding about the "Not unless you file a bug" part.

We have strict self imposed rules about this. Without a bug to track why
a patch gets added to a package it will be lost or dropped in future
versions.

So please file a bug and explain in detail there why this patch would be
good for gentoo. http://bugs.gentoo.org

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 11:47, Vitaly Ivanov wrote:
> Hello Dear All
>
> This patch is aimed to fix incorrect automake version detection,
> in case when environment variable WANT_AUTOMAKE is not specified and
> when files Makefile.in
> and aclocal.m4 do not exit. It is a common situation when aclocal is
> executed for the first time.
> Automake documentation suggests a method how a project can specify its
> version requirements:
> a macro AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([options]) should be placed in configure.in or
> configure.ac.
> For example:
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.8 gnu])
>
> After applying our patch gentoo aclocal wrapper would first search
> automake version requirements
> in envvar WANT_AUTOMAKE, Makefile.in, aclocal.m4 and then in
> configure.in or configure.ac.
>
> /Best regards, Vitaly
>
>
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
> >On Tuesday 05 October 2004 10:10 am, Vitaly Ivanov wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Pleace apply to Gentoo portage.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >not unless you file a bug explaining why the patch is needed
> >
> >these things arent handled on the mailing lists
> >-mike
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Gentoo (hardened,security,infrastructure,embedded,toolchain) Developer