Re: General Questions
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> The upstream Makefiles in all of the the dict packages have a
> line in the distclean target that removes Makefile and configure.
> That would make it necessary to run autoconf after make distclean in
> order to compile again. The Makefiles do _not_ include a rule to run
> autoconf. I deleted configure from that line in Makefile.in in every
> case. Is that reasonable?
If you mean that you deleted the removal of configure from the Makefiles
so that configure are not actually removed in the distclean target, yes,
it seems reasonable.
> Would it be reasonable to assume that anyone who wanted to recompile the
> binary from the source package would have autoconf installed?
No, in my opinion, this would be a little worse solution.
Packages using configure scripts do not usually require the person
compiling it to have autoconf installed. If you can preserve this feature
in your Debian source package, it would be a good thing.
In fact, by modifying the Makefiles so that they do not remove the
configure script you are actually fixing a bug in the distclean target.
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