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Unfortunately, there's not just one autotools but at least two major variants: libtool and direct, with 3 common incompatible versions in the wild: 2.1, 2.6, 2.
by AstralStorm 7y ago
Unfortunately, there's not just one autotools but at least two major variants: libtool and direct, with 3 common incompatible versions in the wild: 2.1, 2.6, 2.13.
Packagers have some trouble getting fixes to these build systems to stick. Cue Gentoo autotools.eclass with automatic application of generic set of fixes for all the brokenness of the ages.
- Crinus 7y agoAFAIK this is a problem only if you want to regenerate the configure scripts. As a "user" (and packager) you should use the pregenerated configure script provided in the release.