Re: automake 1.5
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 03:03:13PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> The long term solution, apparently, is for packages to not Build-Depend:
> on automake. This means that packages should ship their .orig.tgz/diff.gz
> with automake already run, which may require the maintainer to run
> automake by hand after downloading new upstream source, rather than just
> having it be part of debian/rules. There's some rumours that this isn't
> enough, since automake likes to generate Makefiles that call automake
> themselves, and that this can be bad.
Such rumours are false. Supposing the maintainer has correctly run
auto* by hand, the resulting sources will build just fine *without*
automake installed.
The generated Makefiles will have rules that nominally run "automake".
But they in fact run a little script that will: run automake if present
on the system or, if automake is not present, just touch the "generated"
file(s) (the script will complain, but you can ignore that message).
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