Re: source dependencies
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On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
> > On Jul 23, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote
> > > a) If we ever modify configure.in, the maintainer should run autoconf
> > > so that the .diff file contains also the diffs for the new configure
> > > script, and autoconf is not needed again at build time.
> > >
> > > b) We run autoconf at build time.
>
> [..]
> > i can't think of any soluton, where b) makes sence.
>
> Well, if we want to run debian packages on other systems (Solaris, whatever),
> then b) would make al lot more sence (we could then have one source
> pacakge for many different OS's).
At least GNU source packages are the same for every OS, and they use,
of course, the same configure.in and configure script.
If we ever have to change configure & configure.in, we should not break
that. If we do, I think it must be labelled as a bug.
Is not finding bugs in source packages one of the purposes of this
automatic package building scheme?
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