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Subject: Re: Autotools and "foreign"
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On 08/13/2014 01:13 PM, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> On 08/12/2014 08:57 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
>> On 12 August 2014 18:40, Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl> wrote:
>>> Is there an alternative to manually patching all of these packages to get
>>> them to compile once more?
>>
>> Depends on the package, but generally you'll need to update the
>> automake macro at the top of configure.ac (and submit a patch upstream
>> as this should have been fixed years ago).
>
> Basically, you're saying "no" then?
>
>> Encouraging said upstreams to use autoreconf instead of (likely)
>> home-grown crazy would be a good move whilst you're talking to them.
>
> That might be the case if said upstream people actually still existed. Most of
> these packages have since long been abandoned.
>
> So I guess I'll have to cook up a class that works around it, just adding the
> "missing" files into the S directory might do the trick.
>

How about add this to configure.ac:

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])

// Robert


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