On 09.03.2017 15:57, Nicolas Boulenguez wrote: > Hello. > > gcc-7 build process may recreate src/Makefile.in from src/Makefile.def > and src/Makefile.tpl with something like > # cd src && autogen Makefile.def > right after patch application. > > This would drop two thousand lines of noise in > debian/patches/bootstrap-no-unneeded-libs.diff > debian/patches/gdc-libphobos-build].diff > plus a bit more in the Ada patches. > I see no counterpart. > - Gcc-7 already Build-Depends: autogen for unrelated reasons. > - The generation takes less than a second on my machine.
I didn't see that the autogen dependency is still there. The reason I was trying to avoid it was bootstrapping. autogen depends on guile which I wanted to avoid. I'll look if autogen is used for other cases besides generating the toplevel Makefile.in. Matthias
