[Mageia-dev] autogen.sh

Wed Sep 19 12:57:59 CEST 2012

onsdagen den 19 september 2012 12.34.46 skrev  Guillaume Rousse:
+> 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...
+
+Funny... An ignorant, patronizing and belittling responce is what I get on my 
+first ever mail here. I really don't have time with this childish crap.
+
+
+-- 
+Regards // Oden Eriksson
+Security team manager - Mandriva
+CEO NUX AB
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