Re: Bug#461513: cdbs: requires aclocal.m4 to be present in order to generate it
Hi there!
> I admit that in my case it is a cornercase: it is an old package that
> necessitates the autotools to be ran again with newer versions in order
> to build. I do this with the DEB_AUTO_UPDATE* variables of CDBS.
>
> I placed a fake aclocal.m4 to force DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_ACLOCAL=1.10 to take
> effect.
>
> All of this comes of course from the fact that the package seems
> abandonned upstream. Actually, for other reasons I ended up thinking
> that it is not suitable for Debian unless somebody revives it upstream.
This discussion and also the CDBS documentation
> CDBS can be asked to update Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool generated
files, but this behavior is likely to break the build system and is
strongly discouraged
make me feel than a piece of source code i've got suffers of something not
clearly understandable by me.
(It have a bootstrap.sh file which runs
autoheader && aclocal && automake --foreign --add-missing && autoconf
and of course no aclocal.m4).
Could you point me to an explanation of what is wrong with such kind of
source code? Why it's considered to be "so complex" for a package build
system.
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