597540 – net-firewall/iptables - Invalid use of AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND

Bug 597540 - net-firewall/iptables - Invalid use of AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND

Summary: net-firewall/iptables - Invalid use of AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2016-10-19 14:18 UTC by Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED)
Modified:	2016-12-07 07:40 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-10-19 14:18:51 UTC

Hi,

looks like you have set 'AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND=no' because you wanted to prevent unnecessary autoreconf calls.

However you haven't added autotools dependencies manually to DEPEND.

So in theory, when emerging iptables and epatch_user will be called it isn't guaranteed that the autotool programs are available...

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2016-10-19 14:45:31 UTC

If the user is patching the build system, they can also make sure that autoconf is installed.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2016-12-07 07:40:17 UTC

we're not going to force autotools onto everyone just for the edge case of someone applying custom patches and manually uninstalled relevant autotools