[Build-common-hackers] Bug#509177: in autotools-files.mk aclocal will only be called if aclocal.m4 allready exists

[Fabian Greffrath]

Package: cdbs
Version: 0.4.52
Severity: normal

Dear cdbs-developers,

I make use of cdbs' DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_* features.

In /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools-files.mk in line 52, 
aclocal-$(DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_ACLOCAL) gets called *only* if the file 
$(DEB_SRCDIR)/aclocal.m4 does already exist.

However, according to aclocal(1) the file aclocal.m4 gets created by 
aclocal from the contents of configure.in. So the existence of this 
file is not a requirement for aclocal to be run, it is its result 
instead. Indeed I have a source at hand (faac 1.26) which does not 
ship an aclocal.m4 file but defines macros in configure.in which 
require aclocal to be run before autoconf can be run. Please fix this 
in a way that aclocal is always run before autoconf, regardless of 
aclocal.m4 to already exist or not.

Thank you very much!

Cheers,
Fabian

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Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath

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