Re: [Xenomai] [PATCH 1/2] debian: add autoreconf to build rules

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 01:53:38PM +0200, Henning Schild wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 11:39:43 +0200
> Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org> wrote:
> 
> > is dh-autoreconf available on wheezy ?
> 
> Sure.
>  
> > If people work from a release, autoreconf is useless and has chances
> > to do more harm than good.
> 
> So releases will contain the Makefiles and configure-scripts again?

No, Makefiles are generated by running the configure script. But the
configure script yes, only the git repository does not contain it or
maybe I misunderstood something.

> 
> > If people do not work from a release, can we not expect them to run
> > autoreconf by themselves ?
> 
> You are right, that is another way of looking at it. I was assuming
> that the rules should contain all necessary build steps, but i am not
> sure what the best practice is for debian-directories.

The thing is that debian allows to install very old versions of the
autotools. I would not want the default rule, to simply wreck the
autotools file because the user made the mistake of having old
versions of the autotools used by default, whereas the shipped ones
are fine.

-- 
					    Gilles.