Re: Autoconf build targets
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:14:25AM -0600, Joel Baker wrote:
> Frankly, I vote for "break libtool in a Debian-specific way". This is what
> Debian patches are for, honestly. Breaking Debian packages is not really
> a workable solution, for what I would hope should be obvious reasons.
There are other situations as well - Exim parses the uname output and uses
that to determine which makefile to use. If it finds NetBSD, it assumes
that make is BSD rather than GNU. Fixing this as a Debian specific patch
would work, but it'd be nice to be able to get it accepted by upstream as
well. As far as possible, I think people ought to be able to download and
build packages from upstream source which work, even if the precise
functionality is different.
> Agreed, it would be easier. I'm pondering whether this should also just be
> maintained in a Debian-specific patch against autotools-dev (at least, I
> think that's where config.{sub,guess} are supposed to come from, right?)
Keeping it as a Debian specific patch is easy enough, but it would be nice
if we could get it included upstream. I can't see how it could break
anything else.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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