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Re: Autoreconfing guide



Wookey wrote:
> +++ Russ Allbery [2014-07-15 23:55 -0700]:
> > I don't think autoreconf can always figure out what to do when the
> > files are buried in some random subdirectory without anything at
> > the top level.
> 
> Correct. It's generally when the source is in a subdir and there is
> nothing autotooly at all at the top level.

Sure, but the wiki page leaves the impression that you must add
debian/autoreconf in almost all cases, it says "plain dh_autoreconf
will often not work".  Such cases should be relevantly rare, I think,
as most packages have a top-level configure and use AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS.


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