[pacman-dev] Bug: using --program-prefix configure option breaks makepkg

[Allan McRae]

On 5/5/20 8:22 am, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 5/4/20 5:12 PM, wwijsman at live.nl wrote:
>> Thanks for the info! I did manage to fix it for autotools in the way
>> gcc does it, for which I've submitted a patch now, but I think you're
>> right about Meson. I don't really know much about Meson, though. Are
>> you guys planning on keeping autotools supported or is Meson the
>> future?
> 
> In the long term, we'd like to declare meson feature-compatible and drop
> autotools. There is some information here:
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64394
> 

I intend on removing autotools very, very soon.  So patches to fix
autotools issues will not be committed (unless they are worthy of
backporting to the release branch).

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