On 08/02/2012 02:05, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 09:47:06AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >>>>> While the waf behavour does sound quite awful, is this really any >>>>> different than the current behaviour of the autotools? The >>>>> "configure" script is an unreadable mess generated by the expansion of >>>>> macros in the autotools packages; it too bears little relation to the >>>>> original macros. >>>> But all the original macros are actually present and shipped with the >>>> source (or are obtained from some version of the Autoconf, Automake, >>>> and Libtool packages), >>> You must mean "all the original macros should be actually present" >>> because it is not always true, as you seem to imply below. >> Er, well, no, I did actually mean what I said. However, I suppose it's >> possible that some upstreams are generating configure scripts from local >> macros in /usr/share/aclocal that they don't ship with the package. > They may omit macros from the tarball because of some other things > (starting with a bad tarball generation script). I think I've seen that in > one package but that was long ago and I don't remember details. Afaik autoconf includes aclocal.m4 in the dist tarball by default (I'm not sure if you can actually disable that), which includes all out-of-tree macros. However, having the macro in aclocal.m4 does not automagically grant you the ability to autoreconf, as aclocal.m4 itself is regenerated then. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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