[Mageia-dev] autogen.sh

Wed Sep 19 12:34:46 CEST 2012

Le 19/09/2012 10:55, Oden Eriksson a écrit :
+> Hello people.
+>
+> Someone was wondering why i added autogen.sh in libxslt. There is a reason for
+> this after long time maintaining open source softwares. See it as a "last
+> known good" way of using the autopoo stuff as done upstream.
+Just because you never understood autoconf is not an excuse to use such 
+kind of derogative comments.
+
+> If "autoreconf -
+> fi" should ever fail in libxslt use the provided autogen.sh file. These files
+> tends to disappear or be moved to the upstream release managers private hard
+> drive only, or something like that. It's simply wise to keep autogen.sh for
+> ourselves for reference. If you don't need to use it, fine, but keep it.
+Those dedicated scripts disappear because they are now obsoletes in 
+favor of a generic solution maintained upstream. You'd better find an 
+actual case where using the standard tool fails, whereas using such kind 
+of ad-hoc wrapper works, before bloating packages with useless hacks.
+
+BTW, libxslt builds perfectly without ever regenerating the build system...
+
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #189:
+
+SCSI's too wide.
+