Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #60283, comment 8


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Apr 4, 2020, 10:31:05 PM (4 years ago)
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ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
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  • Ticket #60283, comment 8

    initial v1  
    22> Why not just add {{{automake}}} as a build dependency?
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    4 A Portfile developer who wants to patch an autotools-based build system can choose either to patch the configure.ac and Makefile.am files and then run autoreconf or patch configure and Makefile.in and not run autoreconf. The maintainer of the octave port has chosen the former. Therefore it is imperative that autoreconf (or autoconf or automake) ''not'' be run; running them would wipe out the patches to configure and Makefile.in. And there's no evidence so far that changing the port to patching configure.ac and Makefile.am and running autoreconf would fix the race condition.
     4A Portfile developer who wants to patch an autotools-based build system can choose either to patch the configure.ac and Makefile.am files and then run autoreconf or patch configure and Makefile.in and not run autoreconf. The maintainer of the octave port has chosen the latter. Therefore it is imperative that autoreconf (or autoconf or automake) ''not'' be run; running them would wipe out the patches to configure and Makefile.in. And there's no evidence so far that changing the port to patching configure.ac and Makefile.am and running autoreconf would fix the race condition.