[Mageia-dev] autogen.sh

Angelo Naselli anaselli at linux.it
Thu Sep 20 11:06:42 CEST 2012


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Il 19/09/2012 10:55, Oden Eriksson ha scritto:
> 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.  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.

I'm not against on having stuff that simplify our life in building
packages, but i have a question what does autogen.sh that does not
work with the standard sequence (more or less always the same)?:
libtoolize && aclocal && automake --add-missing && autoconf

Just wonder...

Cheers,
	Angelo

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