On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:15:26PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
>
> * Package name : dh-autoreconf
> Version : 1
> Upstream Author : Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
> * License : GPL-2
> Programming Lang: Perl
> Description : debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build
>
> Package: dh-autoreconf
> Architecture: all
> Depends: ${misc:Depends}, autoconf, automake | automaken, libtool
> Description: debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build
> dh-autoreconf provides a debhelper sequence addon named 'autoreconf' and two
> commands, dh_autoreconf and dh_autoreconf_clean.
> .
> The dh_autoreconf command creates a list of the files and their checksums,
> calls autoreconf and then creates a second list for the new files.
> .
> The dh_autoreconf_clean command compares these two lists and removes all
> files which have been added or changed (files may be excluded if needed).
>
> I am using this inside the gnome-main-menu package and it works perfectly,
> although a bit slow because it creates md5sums of the whole source tree
> two times (I may add an option to use timestamp+size instead for larger
> source packages).
>
It seems that we could also read the requested versions of automake and
autoconf from debian/control and export them automatically using:
# Setup the environment for autoreconf to run the correct versions
sub program {
my $program=shift;
my $version="";
open (CONTROL, 'debian/control') ||
error("cannot read debian/control: $!\n");
foreach my $builddeps (join('', <CONTROL>) =~
/^Build-Depends[^:]*:.*\n(?:^[^\w\n].*\n)*/gmi) {
while ($builddeps =~ /$program([0-9.]+)/g) {
error("Multiple versions of $program requested ($version, $1)") if
($version ne "");
$version=$1;
}
}
close CONTROL;
return $version eq "" ? $program : $program."-".$version;
}
$ENV{"AUTOCONF"} = program("autoconf") if not defined $ENV{"AUTOCONF"};
$ENV{"AUTOHEADER"} = program("autoconf") if not defined $ENV{"AUTOHEADER"};
$ENV{"ACLOCAL"} = program("automake") if not defined $ENV{"ACLOCAL"};
$ENV{"AUTOMAKE"} = program("automake") if not defined $ENV{"AUTOMAKE"};
Does this sound like a good idea?
--
Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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