Re: [bug-mailutils] autoreconf failure

[Jordi Mallach]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:32:50PM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote:
> No, it makes a lot of sense for a source based distro like gentoo.  Say
> I patch configure.ac and regenerate configure.  When I push those
> changes out, every mailutils using gentoo user will patch his
> configure.ac and regenerate his own configure script.
> 
> Currently, mailutils uses autotools but fails to autoreconf without
> providing a convenient way to regenerate autotools scripts.

FWIW, I'm with Eray on this one. Sometimes we need to change a
Makefile.am, or a configure.ac, or whatever in the build system, and
simply doing autoreconf works for us. We even have a debhelper module that
automates it.

bootstrap is ok for git, but people wanting to modify a tarball release
(ie, say Eray and I need to modify parts of a testsuite that failed on
sparc64), we need a reliable way of regenerating the autotools stuff.

It would certainly make our lives easier.

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