On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 11:27, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
Hijacking this thread originally about
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Autoconf_271

What is the current thinking in Fedora about always running
"autoreconf -i" during builds that use autotools?

1) "autoreconf -i" is not enough. It needs to be executed "autoreconf -fi" and to have proper visibility reconfigure issues should be executed "autoreconf -fiv"

2) Looks like still no one performed experiment of rebuilding all existing packages with %configure macro in spec by execute:

$ for i in *.src.rpm; do rpmbuild --rebuild -D "_configure 'autoreconf -fiv; configure'" $i; done

To check which Fedora packages are failing in the build environment with autoconf 2.71.

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