Re: Solving recursive dependency disease in KDE-based packages

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Regenerating acinclude.m4, aclocal.m4, configure.in, and finally configure,
> can be a pain in the neck.  In some packages, it's done by

autoreconf ?

> In my experience the redefinition of AC_FOREACH sometimes fights with the

Any such redefinitions are a STUPID idea to begin with. Watch as that blows
on KDE's face when upstream auto* changes something...

>   Replace stuff like $(LIBFOO) with -lfoo, and get rid of stuff like

Is not this used to find the correct libfoo in the configure script?

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