autoconf and epel-5

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Feb 25 01:06:31 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 23:34 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> > "Autotools-generated source packages are intended to be buildable
> > without requiring the autotools on the host system. autoconf, automake,
> > libtoolize [...]
> 
> which shows how stupid it is, because when you build an RPM in Koji
> you obviously _do_ have all the autotools available to you.

It's talking about tarballs and any given build environment, not
src.rpms and Koji.
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