[Build-common-hackers] Bug#461513: cdbs: requires aclocal.m4 to be present in order to generate it

Charles Plessy charles-debian-nospam at plessy.org
Thu Jan 31 15:08:19 UTC 2008


Le Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:00:47PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut a écrit :
> Am Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008 schrieb Charles Plessy:
> >
> > I did not find DEB_AUTO_CREATE_ACLOCAL, in the Ubuntu bug record, nor in
> > the CDBS rules, nor on Google... Did I miss something ?
> 
> No, but you appear to expect that the feature *creates* the aclocal.m4 file, 
> but the variable name clearly indicates that it only *updates*.

Ah, OK. Actually, I expected the command to do something similar as when
I type aclocal in command line. In that case, it indeed creates the file
if it is not there. Would you have something against having
DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_ACLOCAL doing this ?

-- 
Charles





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