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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass
From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
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On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 17:51 +0200, Maurice van der Pot wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 04:24:40PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > I still think a autoreconf is usually enough, except for cases where
> > that do not work,=20
>=20
> And what is "not work" in this case?
> - fails with an error so it's impossible to miss as a dev, or=20
> - fails to do things properly, causing subtle bugs that users will run in=
to
>=20
Some guy doing a half ass job on writing configure.{ac,in}, Makefile.am
and whatever other helper scripts causing either autoreconf to fail, or
errors during building.
Don't ask for an example .. I cannot recall now, but I have run into a
few packages in the past.
--=20
Martin Schlemmer
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