[pacman-dev] [PATCH 0/5] Use more auto in autotools

[Allan McRae]

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