Re: question re: %configure

[Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat com>]

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 08:07:56AM +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've noticed that %configure runs libtoolize when it doesn't find 
> configure.in in the tarball.
> I suppose if that's in the macro then that's considered the right thing to 
> do. I  was wondering why exactly it does that, if it's actually better or 
> not to do it, or if I'm better off specifying my own configure line ?

Heh. Here's why libtoolize is in %configure:

A long time ago an arm port was attempted, and the arm arches were not known
to deployed config.guess. So libtoolize was added to %configure in order
to copy in arm-aware versions of config.guess/config.sub.

> 
> If it is better, then I'll just change all my specs and add
> BuildRequires: libtool

Maybe. There's a certain core set of functionality provided by the
build system that Red Hat packages don't bother tracking, e.g.
cc/make/as/ls etc.  libtoolize is arguably a member of that set.

> 
> but before I do that I wanted to know if this is necessary or not.

It depends :-)

73 de Jeff

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