From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Organization: wh0rd.org
To: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] fix parallel build failures in xfsprogs-3.0.0
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:08:54 -0500
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        Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>, "xfs-oss" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
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On Thursday 26 February 2009 12:17:02 Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:17:28 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > yes.  i dont know why the xfs progs have been packaging these
> > autogenerated files by themselves.
> >
> > - remove aclocal.m4 from git
> > - run `aclocal -I m4`
> > - run `libtoolize -c -f`
> > - run `autoconf`
>
> You mean this should become the normal build process?
>
> I was actually more thinking along the lines of reducing build dependencies
> by adding a few more generated files like ./configure ...

no, this is the process for going from live git to a dist tarball.  people who 
download tarballs should never need autotools installed.  people who build 
from live scms should.
-mike