* Roberto C. Sanchez (roberto@familiasanchez.net) wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 06:40:26PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > > I don't think a dependency on automake and autoconf are almost always > > bad ideas. It makes the build more unpredictable, which is generally a > > bad thing. You should just run automake and/or autoconf on the > > unpacked source and ship it in the .diff.gz. An extra 2K won't hurt. > > > I tried that once to see the difference. It went from ~4K to ~61K. Is > that OK? In effect, the only thing changed in configure.in is the GTK > macro to look for GTK 2 instead of 1.2. I have not had any weirdness > buidling on my sarge box or in clean Sarge and Sid chroots. That seems somewhat unusual. Which package was this? But really, why quibble over 57K? Is that really a problem we should be worrying about? I've seen it a few times over the years, and they're usually pretty wacky. -- Eric Dorland <eric.dorland@mail.mcgill.ca> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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