Bug#746514: Autoreconf during build
On 04/30/2014 10:36 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
>
> It seems that a lot of packages do not use something like
> autoreconf during build, and every time someone starts a new
> port he has to patches way too many packages to get config.guess
> and config.sub updated.
Do you have numbers?
There is dh_autotools-dev which works well and should be a default indeed.
> I would like that we say that at least config.guess and config.sub
> must be updated during the build process and that things like
> configure should be regenerated during the build process.
Regenerating configure is often a major pita as it often requires additional
steps additional to calling auto*. Where possible and if needed there is
dh_autoreconf, but even that fails often enough. And forcing people to upgrade
configure is a waste of time imho.
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