Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Paul Wise wrote:
> Does your autogen.sh script ever become anything more than calling
> autoreconf with some specific options?
Yes. I think it was Cyrus IMAP that required -I in places where
autoreconf doesn't reach, so I called each tool separately. Which is
obviously a problem in autoreconf.
> > 3. I always hook the debian package to retool on package build. I have
> ...
> > 4. Just deal with the annoyance in the debian clean target, but do use
> ...
> > 5. Cheerfully ignore any purists complaining that debian/rules clean does
> > not restore whatever crap was there upstream.
>
> I generally don't bother with these unless I'm patching the autotools
> source files (configure.ac/Makefile.am). I'm increasingly being
> convinced that doing it in all autotools-based packages is a good
> idea.
If you get it right, and life for anyone doing an NMU suddenly is much
easier. That's why I do it on all my packages, even if I don't have to
patch configure.ac or Makefile.am at the moment.
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Henrique Holschuh
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