Re: infrastructure for autoreconf

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 07:26:17PM +0200, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> I did a random sampling of 5 packages that use autogen.sh and all
> of them contained benign sequences of aclocal, autoconf, automake.
> The only thing they tend to customize is the m4 include path.

Historically many autogen.sh files were changed to just run autoreconf
once it existed, so I would call the autogen.sh files "old".

> Thus, I propose the logic shoud run "${CONFIG_SHELL} autogen.sh" if
> ${WRKSRC}/autogen.sh exist, with fallback to "autoreconf -if".

Fair enough...

Cheers,

Patrick