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Re: Cameleon packages available



barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier) writes:

> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:13:20PM +0200, Maxence Guesdon wrote:
>> > > BTW, I'm surprised that autoconf is required since
>> > > a configure script is provided.
>> > 
>> > Better ask Maxence on this issue then ...
>> 
>> In fat, i give the .configure script like everyone does, but i give also the configure.in script if someone needs to modify it (easier to modify than the configure script). The Makefile also contains a target to rebuild itself.
>>
>> Do you think I should remove this target ? and omve the configure.in script in a subdir ?
>
>   $ tar ztvf cameleon_1.1+cvs.20021009.orig.tar.gz | grep configure
>   -rwxr-xr-x guesdon/cristal 43511 2002-08-26 11:42:25 cameleon-snapshot/configure
>   -rw-r--r-- guesdon/cristal  6068 2002-08-26 11:42:26 cameleon-snapshot/configure.in
> [...]
>
> The configure script is older than configure.in ;)
>
> A workaround is to touch configure in debian/rules before running
> make, but there may be other timestamp problems.

another workaround is for the maintainer to make the new configure
before launching dpkg-buildpackage (so that the configure is newer
thanks to the patch.

-- 
Rémi Vanicat
vanicat@labri.u-bordeaux.fr
http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~vanicat



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