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

[Allan McRae]

On 05/07/13 14:47, Allan McRae wrote:
> 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?

I have tested this out.

The two situations I tested:
1) No curl
2) No gpgme

#1 worked as expected.  With #2, autoreconf does not copy (the
non-existent) gpgme.m4 file with really nonsensical errors:

configure.ac:178: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_IF
(and other similar)

So unless anyone has any idea, it looks like we still need to include
gpgme.m4 in our git.


I have also added a "-N" to the patch line so running ./autogen.sh
multiple times does not case errors.

Allan