On Sunday 13 November 2011 12:45:50 Samuli Suominen wrote:
> On 11/13/2011 07:37 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > but i've hit this since with cross-compiling Linux targets:
> > 	- pygobject ebuild inherits gnome2 eclass
> > 	- pygobject's src_prepare first calls gnome2_src_prepare
> > 	- gnome2_src_prepare always calls elibtoolize (which normally is good)
> > 	- pygobject's src_prepare applies patches and then calls eautoreconf
> > 	- eautoreconf regens all files that where patched earlier
> > 	- eautoreconf's call to elibtoolize is skipped
> > 	- builds fail which need those elibtoolize patches
> 
> also a bug in those ebuilds then, since gnome2_src_prepare() should
> always be the last call/command in src_prepare()

yes, but the current state is that people don't notice and things silently 
break.  i'm turning the situation into a QA warning so bug reports get 
filed/fixed, and things continue to work in the mean time.
-mike