On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:12:36PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: ... > > > > i'm talking for curl[-ssll] packages: > > > > i put automake in Build-Depends because of its ability to make > > generated makefiles call itself. i started using versioned depends > > because on transition to autoconf 2.50 i though automake changed > > in another beast too. > > But those files cannot be regenerated because of wrong timestamps induced > by applying .diff.gz. > > > Your patch do modify aclocal.m4, config* and Makefile.in files, so you > cannot rely on automatic rebuilding of those files and need to call the > auto-chain explicitly. > i keep almost all of my packages under cvs and i can see that sometimes, after the first debuild, all my Makefile.in get modified. then, usually, i decide to call libtoolize;aclocal;automake;autoconf; right to be sure everything is up-to-date. then i put automake/autoconf in Build-Depends to be sure that those strange users (the autobuilders :) ) install everything that might be required for build. i never liked this way of build packages, i think that all the Makefile.in-s should stay as the upstream gives to me, but some upstreams work on broken systems or on out-dated ones IMHO. i have two other packages that build all from scratch calling libtoolize; automake; autoconf; right from the upstream configuration script, they do not even ship with this stuff, so i have to depend on automake/autoconf/whatever. btw: cvs gets confused by changes made in Makefile.in-s by automake (and of course the ones in ./configure made by autoconf and all the other made by aclocal, libtoolize) and it tries to apply them also when i import a new upstream version. the result is some extra work by hand (i hate it). i would be very very happy to solve this problem and i would be very thankful towards anybody suggesting a solution. -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://filibusta.crema.unimi.it/~cavok/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50
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