From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 15271139694 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2017 15:17:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D3A621C0E4; Sun, 11 Jun 2017 15:17:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E22121C08F for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2017 15:17:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.21] (85.253.87.190.cable.starman.ee [85.253.87.190]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: leio) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B85EE341820 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2017 15:17:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1497194242.24558.4.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass: automatically move configure.in to configure.ac From: Mart Raudsepp To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 18:17:22 +0300 In-Reply-To: References: <20170610132819.736131ca@wim.jer> <20170610130406.35cf203a@sf> <20170611150029.GA28495@linux1> <1497193653.24558.2.camel@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 53b14155-1586-46fd-acc6-8a8d70e19fea X-Archives-Hash: 488f093f06fd6f21a033453f5d496ce2 Ühel kenal päeval, P, 11.06.2017 kell 17:12, kirjutas Kristian Fiskerstrand: > On 06/11/2017 05:07 PM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > > Ühel kenal päeval, P, 11.06.2017 kell 10:00, kirjutas William > > Hubbs: > > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 01:04:06PM +0100, Sergei Trofimovich > > > wrote: > > > > On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 13:28:19 +0200 > > > > Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > > > > > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426262 > > > > > + mv configure.{in,ac} || die > > > > > > > > Looks good. > > > > > > > > --  > > > > > > > >   Sergei > > > > > > -1 > > > > > > I think this should be handled by the packages, not at the eclass > > > level. > > > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426262#c3 > > > > > > The packages should either mv the configure.in to configure.ac > > > internally, or better yet, the maintainers should ask upstream > > > for > > > their > > > packages to fix it. > > > > +1, otherwise we will never be able to add/unmask a newer autoconf > > that > > doesn't look at configure.in anymore, once such a version > > eventually > > happens. > > > > 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. That's a complete useless waste of time, to track some ancient packages that don't get any upstream update anyway. The active ones have updated it long ago. And it'd be a joke to propose last riting for the reason of a file being named configure.in instead of configure.ac.