Re: [Orbit-python-list] [patch] make autogen.sh (automake really) work on Debian

[Sune K. <su...@in...>]

[ Jason Tackaberry ]
> > So, I set out to fix the problem, which resulted in the following patch.
> 
> I think the patch is good, but I'd like it if you could modify it so
> that if their automake is not patched, it asks them if they want to
> patch it, instead of automatically doing it for them. Mention that
> the configure script already exists and they don't really need to use
> autogen.sh if they don't want to patch automake.

It now suggests that they use the included configure script, unless they
really need to regenerate configure and the Makefile.in's.  It's just a
simple "Press CTRL-C to cancel, enter to really do it"-style warning.

Also, about checking that it can actually patch automake, since what it
actually does is to create a patched copy (in ./automake+python), and
use the included macro-files, there's not much need to check it can do
so.  I know it's not the optimal solution, but I like it a lot better
than having to run autogen.sh as root, or some equivalent solution.

Oh, and it also fixes a buglet in autogen.sh, where the second time
you ran autogen.sh, on a system w/o Python support in the global
automake, it would forget to include the local macro-files.

> Otherwise it looks good, and I'll merge it in.

Nice.

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