558738 – app-misc/pax-utils should not require autoreconf

Bug 558738 - app-misc/pax-utils should not require autoreconf

Summary: app-misc/pax-utils should not require autoreconf

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Development (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2015-08-25 16:49 UTC by Pariksheet Nanda
Modified:	2015-09-12 04:00 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Pariksheet Nanda 2015-08-25 16:49:07 UTC

It would be wonderful if pax-utils releases shipped with `configure', etc to avoid requiring autotools (specifically gnulib) for HPC environments.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2015-08-27 02:29:30 UTC

Err... they do. What version/tarball are you looking at?

Comment 2 Pariksheet Nanda 2015-08-27 02:54:26 UTC

I was trying version 1.1 from:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/pax-utils.git/snapshot/pax-utils-1.1.tar.gz

My use case is just to be able to use lddtree to help troubleshoot brain-dead,  proprietary software.

Comment 3 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2015-08-27 12:06:36 UTC

Ok, that's a tarball being generated directly from the git repo. It's generally bad practice to commit a configure script in git.

Use this instead. It's a "make dist" style tarball.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/dist/pax-utils-1.1.tar.xz

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-09-12 04:00:16 UTC

lddtree.py doesn't require configure to run in the first place ...