Re: How to build a package from cvs.

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

> I am (have already) building a new package from the cvs tree, but my question
> is:
> 
> Shall I run the autobuild (called bootstrap) on my system and go with the
> package using those results or I shall modify my debian/rules to create the
> Makefile.in and friends during compilation time?
> 
> It would force some modifications in debian/control to use the right automake
> and so on...

I'd rather have autoconf/automake run on your system, and 
use the results as the orig.tar.gz.

The rationale being that automake et al take quite a lot of CPU
cycle to run (waste of buildd time), and more importantly, 
they are rather unreliable to be ran noninteractively.


regards,
	junichi