On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 10:04, Toshio wrote:
Hi, I'm fighting with BuildRequires here and was wondering about the auto* family of tools. configure checks for them at build time and during builds of some packages. Are these tools actually needed for the package to build (ie: should they be a BuildRequire?)
A related question: If I change something up the tool chain (A configure.in or Makefile.am) should I do my auto*'ing inside the .spec or do it in my work area before hand and create a patch? The latter will generate a bigger patch, but it seems cleaner....
-Toshio From what I have seen, if you patch configure.in/ac or a Makefile.am,
you should call the auto* tools from the spec file - typically in the build section from what I have seen. In those cases, you should probably supply a BuildRequires especially if you require specific versions of the auto tools (autoconf >= 2.57 for example).