On 26/06/13 15:01, Allan McRae wrote:
The use of autotools in pacman is interesting... We commit most autotools generated files, but not configure or Makefile. One reason for this is that we needed to patch ltmain.sh to properly handle -Wl,-as-needed, because the Arch package maintainer refused to do so unless upstream accepts! Libtool upstream have known about the bug since at least 2006, so that does not look hopeful.
The new approach is to have autogen.sh call autoreconf and then have it patch the ltmain.sh file. This removes a lot of crap that should be autogenerated from our git repo: 38 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 28256 deletions(-)
Has anyone already got a VM that could do some more testing of this for me? Perhaps with a VM that does not have gpgme? Maybe curl too? Thanks, Allan