[Opensc-devel] Fwd: breaking autoconf build system

[Alon Bar-L. <alo...@gm...>]

Hello Viktor,

Recently you renamed configure.ac to configure.ac.in in order to
substitute some variables in autoconf.

This is breaking autoconf, as standard package should not contain any
additional configuration but the configuration script, all that is
required is:

git clone xxx
cd xxxx
autoreconf -ivf

Not sure where this was discussed, but as I am available and have the
most commits within build system, please CC me on these changes.

What we need to do now is:

1. revert this change.

2. remove the bootstrap script, it is not required, if you want you
can leave a script with "autoreconf -ivf" command.

3. add version information within Makefile.am to create version.h with
the information required from git (example[1])

4. in any case, instead of sed of configure.ac, you can always create
version.m4 and include it at configure.ac (examples[2][3]).

Regards,
Alon

[1] https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/master/Makefile.am#L92
[2] https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/master/configure.ac#L29
[3] https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/master/version.m4