autoconf/automake in BuildRequires

[Enrico Scholz]

buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru (Dmitry Butskoy) writes:

> According to wiki/PackagingGuidelines, there is exceptions list for
> BuildRequires tag:
> ...
> Autoconf and automake are not present in this list, therefore they
> must be specified in the BuildRequires tag. OTOH it looks as some
> basic tools... May be autoconf and automake should be included in the
> exception list too?

For what do you need these tools? Most packages build fine without them and
they are needed in special cases only (e.g. when patching 'Makefile.am' or
'configure.ac'). But in this case, shipping a patch for 'configure' or
'Makefile.in' might be less problematic than calling 'autoreconf -i -f'.



Enrico