On 7/23/07, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Montag, 23. Juli 2007 17:16 schrieb Carl Fürstenberg: > > One would be if the package is built directly from svn/cvs. > > Well, first of all, there is already functionality to rerun the autotools > in /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools-files.mk. > > Furthermore, many packages have some sort of autogen.sh or use autoreconf to > perform the bootstrapping, whereas your proposal only covers a specific way > to do that bootstrapping. > > And lastly, why would one want to do that? If you are creating Debian > packages you would presumably use (or create) a release tarball and build > from that. >
There are also situations where you have to change the build system, (unless there are a rule somewhere that you MUST use the shipped build system). For example I had a package containing a makefile.in, and I really didn't know how to update that file correctly, so I changed to Makefile.am, but then the dpatch-file went 700k. So to accommodate the rules, I removed all generated files from the source package, and added a patch for the changes and let the given script handle the building. /Carl
