226679 – app-dicts/ebview: patch (ebview-0.3.6-destdir.diff) changes both autotools source and result

Bug 226679 - app-dicts/ebview: patch (ebview-0.3.6-destdir.diff) changes both autotools source and result

Summary: app-dicts/ebview: patch (ebview-0.3.6-destdir.diff) changes both autotools so...

Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it

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Keywords:	PMASKED

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Blocks:	bad-autotools
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Reported:	2008-06-14 15:56 UTC by Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED)
Modified:	2010-02-22 12:56 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-14 15:56:49 UTC

The patch in summary is touching both Makefile.in and Makefile.am, probably to avoid autotools rebuild.

This treatment is usually reserved for a few selected system packages that cannot have their autotool scripts rebuilt.

This _could_ cause maintainermode-driven rebuild (see http://blog.flameeyes.eu/articles/2008/06/13/maintaner-mode ), which is something we should be avoiding as much as possible.

Please just patch Makefile.am and/or configure.in/.ac and rebuild autotools, unless you have very good reasons not to.

Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2008-07-06 18:51:40 UTC

I don't think that this falls under the realm of treecleaners. removing CC.

Comment 2 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-02-22 12:56:52 UTC

The package seems to be removed from the tree.