On Thu 18-02-21 09:08:09, Lubos Kocman wrote:
* Autoconf 2.71: some backwards incompatible changes, and implicitly starts gtkdocize in case configure.ac contains GTK_DOC_CHECK; Especially for ring0 packages, this is painful, as we cannot add gtk- doc dependenices there. Those packages need to GTKDOCIZE=true before running autoreconf (most don't need to run autoreconf, unless they patch configure - upstream your patches!)
This caught my eye since I'm maintainer of one such package (e2fsprogs) which runs autoreconf. I thought it is needed because our build system may provide some modified autoconf macros and so we need to regenerate the configure script. Was I just mistaken and this isn't needed? Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> SUSE Labs, CR