[Mageia-dev] autogen.sh

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 19/09/2012 10:55, Oden Eriksson a écrit :
> Hello people.
>
> Someone was wondering why i added autogen.sh in libxslt. There is a reason for
> this after long time maintaining open source softwares. See it as a "last
> known good" way of using the autopoo stuff as done upstream.
Just because you never understood autoconf is not an excuse to use such 
kind of derogative comments.

> If "autoreconf -
> fi" should ever fail in libxslt use the provided autogen.sh file. These files
> tends to disappear or be moved to the upstream release managers private hard
> drive only, or something like that. It's simply wise to keep autogen.sh for
> ourselves for reference. If you don't need to use it, fine, but keep it.
Those dedicated scripts disappear because they are now obsoletes in 
favor of a generic solution maintained upstream. You'd better find an 
actual case where using the standard tool fails, whereas using such kind 
of ad-hoc wrapper works, before bloating packages with useless hacks.

BTW, libxslt builds perfectly without ever regenerating the build system...

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