From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass: automatically move configure.in to configure.ac
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 13:08:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170611180819.GA4134@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1497197692.24558.5.camel@gentoo.org>
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On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 07:14:52PM +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> Ühel kenal päeval, P, 11.06.2017 kell 11:12, kirjutas William Hubbs:
> > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 05:35:53PM +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand
> > wrote:
> > > On 06/11/2017 05:24 PM, David Seifert wrote:
> > > > > 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.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Here's a deal: you can start filing + fixing them.
> > > >
> > >
> > > The [tracker] is already started, it was determined to add QA
> > > warning
> > > with info on filing upstream bugs in [bug 426262] and the proper
> > > solution is again iterated in [bug 546614], so its not like this is
> > > a
> > > new approach that is being suggested, but sure, we should all file
> > > bugs
> > > when we encounter them.
> > >
> > > References:
> > > [tracker] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530632
> > >
> > > [bug 426262]
> > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426262
> > >
> > > [bug 546614]
> > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546614
> >
> > It seems that the proper fix to this, even for a package that won't
> > do
> > the fix upstream is to use WANT_AUTOCONF in the ebuild to force the
> > version of autoconf you need.
>
> No. It appears you don't know how WANT_AUTOCONF works.
From the eclass:
# @ECLASS-VARIABLE: WANT_AUTOCONF
# @DESCRIPTION:
# The major version of autoconf your package needs
That leads me to believe that you can set WANT_AUTOCONF="someversion"
in your ebuild and your package will use that version of autoconf.
If that's wrong, it needs to be fixed and that's a different bug
entirely, but it doesn't change my position on adding this particular
change to autotools.eclass.
William
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-10 11:28 [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass: automatically move configure.in to configure.ac Jeroen Roovers
2017-06-10 12:04 ` Sergei Trofimovich
2017-06-11 15:00 ` William Hubbs
2017-06-11 15:07 ` Mart Raudsepp
2017-06-11 15:12 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2017-06-11 15:17 ` Mart Raudsepp
2017-06-11 15:20 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2017-06-11 15:36 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-06-11 15:24 ` David Seifert
2017-06-11 15:35 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2017-06-11 16:12 ` William Hubbs
2017-06-11 16:14 ` Mart Raudsepp
2017-06-11 18:08 ` William Hubbs [this message]
2017-06-11 20:02 ` Mart Raudsepp
2017-09-21 14:14 ` Ian Stakenvicius
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