Bug 226317

Summary:	media-sound/alsa-tools: autotools are being rebuilt through maintainer-mode
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo ALSA team [DISABLED] <alsa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	226305

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-13 12:29:15 UTC

Rebuilding autotools through maintainer-mode is _not_ good, because it usually means you forget to add dependencies, and they'll magically use the same version as used by upstream, which might not be what the user have installed at all.

If you patch Makefile.am or configure.in/configure.ac you _have to_ use autotools.eclass and eautomake/eautoreconf. Exceptions are granted _only_ for system packages that would make it impossible to run autotools during stagebuilding.

Please fix your package.

Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-05-21 10:46:21 UTC

Found the problem and fixed myself.