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Re: deal with "autoreconf -i"



On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Hideki Yamane<henrich@debian.or.jp> wrote:

>  What is the smart way to deal with the package that uses "autoreconf -i"?
>  If I just package it, direct source change would be added to diff.gz,
>  and cannot rebuild it by error.

Teach upstream to use automake's 'make dist' feature.

If they won't co-operate, use 'make maintainer-clean' to clean up
instead of 'make distclean'.

Look for packages build-depending on autoconf if you want to find examples.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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