18 Feb
2021
18 Feb
'21
14:14
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
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Jan Kara