On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:

> * Kfir Lavi <lavi.kfir@gmail.com> schrieb:
>
> > > Patching autogenerated files is not a good idea - change the
> > > actual source and regenerate.
> > >
> > In the ACE files they ask not to generate configure alone.
>
> Well, not the first time I hear upstreams confusing intermediate
> files w/ actual sources (yes, there're also folks who include
> precompiled binaries, which are run and later recompiled within
> the build process ;-o). A very good indicator for something
> completely conceptionally wrong in here ;-p
>
> My approach (which I'm doing in the OSS-QM project) is radically
> clear: autogenerated files *must* be regenerated on each build.
> If this doesn't work, the source is broken and has to be fixed,
> period ;-p
>
> Well, you are a purist ;-)
The thing is, I must use this ACE libs, and they are broken.
I have also so many other things to get working, I just have to live with
this approach.
Your method regenerating the ./configure script, is very good, and I'm
asking myself, why
its not done every install, or why we get ./configure generated in the
tar.gz.
Maybe there is something to it.


> I'm even going farer: if upstream has an proper vcs, I take the
> releases from there, completely regenerating everything from
> scratch. All fixes are done within my VCS (essentially, I always
> have my own releases ontop the upstream's, as git tags). Sometimes
> you encounter packages, eg. coreutils, which doing really messy
> things like pulling in another tree via git and copying in files
> from there - a nightmare for packagers ;-o
>
> I wonder, do you patch every ebuild to do just that?
Maybe there should be a new FEATURE that request the ebuild to download the
release from the VCS.

 > So I tried it ;)
> > But had problem to finish.
> > My guess they still tweak by hand.
>
> WTF ? Tweak autoconf-generated files by hand ? Oh, I don't even
> wanna know which drugs they're on ;-)
>
>

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