Hi, Just another consult-post just to see the opinion of the developers (and of the users who know what to say :) ).
There are a few packages which, under some strange autotools combinations which not always are reproducible, suffer from an error like Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `autotools'. configure.in: required file `autotools/mkinstalldirs' not found autoreconf-2.59: automake failed with exit status: 1 This is took by bug #89619 [1], but it's not the only case I was told of. I also suffered from one of them in an occasion. The usual solution is to pass -a switch to automake or -i switch to autoreconf. The question I'm asking here is: should we use -i or -s? For who doesn't know, -i options copies the missing autotools standard files from the system copy, -s symlinks them. Automake defaults to symlinking them with -a, and uses -ac to copy them. This is just a little thing, but having a "right way" to do it could be better. Symlinking is faster, copy is usually needed to make distributable source tarballs. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89619 -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò Gentoo Developer (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64) http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
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