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<H1>[Mageia-dev] autogen.sh</H1>
<B>Oden Eriksson</B>
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TITLE="[Mageia-dev] autogen.sh">oeriksson at mandriva.com
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<I>Wed Sep 19 12:57:59 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>onsdagen den 19 september 2012 12.34.46 skrev Guillaume Rousse:
><i> Le 19/09/2012 10:55, Oden Eriksson a écrit :
</I>><i> > Hello people.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > Someone was wondering why i added autogen.sh in libxslt. There is a reason
</I>><i> > for this after long time maintaining open source softwares. See it as a
</I>><i> > "last known good" way of using the autopoo stuff as done upstream.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Just because you never understood autoconf is not an excuse to use such
</I>><i> kind of derogative comments.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> > If "autoreconf -
</I>><i> > fi" should ever fail in libxslt use the provided autogen.sh file. These
</I>><i> > files tends to disappear or be moved to the upstream release managers
</I>><i> > private hard drive only, or something like that. It's simply wise to keep
</I>><i> > autogen.sh for ourselves for reference. If you don't need to use it,
</I>><i> > fine, but keep it.
</I>><i> Those dedicated scripts disappear because they are now obsoletes in
</I>><i> favor of a generic solution maintained upstream. You'd better find an
</I>><i> actual case where using the standard tool fails, whereas using such kind
</I>><i> of ad-hoc wrapper works, before bloating packages with useless hacks.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> BTW, libxslt builds perfectly without ever regenerating the build system...
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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.
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Regards // Oden Eriksson
Security team manager - Mandriva
CEO NUX AB
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