[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] [Fwd: Re: debian/patches/99autoconf]

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 24 June 2007 at 16:57, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
| Le dimanche 24 juin 2007 à 09:36 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
| > On 24 June 2007 at 12:22, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
| > | Le samedi 23 juin 2007 à 20:46 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
| > | > On 24 June 2007 at 05:21, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
| > | > | Le samedi 23 juin 2007 à 16:44 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
| > | > | > On 23 June 2007 at 22:30, Manuel Prinz wrote:
| > | > | > | Reply should have gone to the list... :/
| > | > | > | 
| > | > | > | -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
| > | > | > | > Von: Manuel Prinz <debian at pinguinkiste.de>
| > | > | > | > An: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
| > | > | > | > Betreff: Re: [Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] debian/patches/99autoconf
| > | > | > | > Datum: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:07:29 +0100
| > | > | > | > 
| > | > | > | > Am Samstag, den 23.06.2007, 14:45 -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
| > | > | > | > > Could we patch configure.ac and force a re-run of autoconf at build time ?
| > | > | > | > 
| > | > | > | > Should be possible, we're build-depending on automake now.
| > | > | > | > 
| > | > | > | > This patch is "my fault". I just adopted it because Steve did it that
| > | > | > | > way in his NMU. Didn't really think about it.
| > | > | > 
| > | > | > Ok, I'll let it rest now esp. as I don't know what the patch was about.
| > | > | > Let's file it as a nice to have feature to have this more compact.
| > | > | It is just a autoconf launched in the root dir of Openmpi in order to produce a ./configure with the lastest version of autoconf.
| > | > | Indeed, we could/should launch it at build time.
| > | > 
| > | > But there is a patches/99* -- doesn't something get changed?
| > | Not at all ! ;)
| > 
| > I'm confused -- I thought this was coming from a patch by Steve Langasek, and
| > I have learned to trust his judgement :)  Wasn't there a FTBFS that it fixed
| > or something?
| > 
| In the changelog, you can see :
|   * Updated patch of autogenerated autoconf files by Steve Langasek.

Sure, I was aware of it. However it does not reference a bug number or issue
it addressed making backtracking to the problem it fixes so much harder :)

| But I haven't check deeper (btw, who wants to dig into ./configure ? :p)
| maybe he is doing more things into this patch but I think an autoconf
| before the creation of the compilation should do it !

As you and both don't seem to know, why don't we stop conjecturing and wait
for Manuel to sort this out, ok ;-) ?

99autoconf is a diff, so some things _are_ being changed and I still don't
understand why you say it doesn't matter whether it is applied or not. But
maybe I just didn't have enough coffee yet.

I am curious how the autobuilder will fare with the package once it is out of
NEW.

Dirk

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