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Re: Is that a way to modify tar.m4?
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Ralf Wildenhues |
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Re: Is that a way to modify tar.m4? |
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Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:13:41 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-08-04) |
Hello,
reading the conversation, most things seem to already be cleared up.
Just a couple of minor points:
* xufeng zhang wrote on Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:47:37AM CET:
> On 11/26/2010 06:37 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
[...]
> >enough). As Dave pointed out in a previous mail, you should:
> >
> > 1. Unpack tar
> > 2. configure
> > 3. make # this will build ./aclocal and ./automake
> >
> > Assuming success so far, then proceed to:
> >
> > 4. patch tar.m4
> > 5. make # this will use the ./aclocal and ./automake build previously
> Seems it can only use this workaround, if I am building a file
> system containing automake,
> then it shouldn't be this way, because it should execute serially.
Not quite correct; the precondition is that you need to have been built
the Automake package at least once only. That means step 3: 'make' has
to have been run successfully before you start modifying tar.m4.
As Stefano already mentioned, the ./bootstrap script always gets you
back to a working source tree (you still might need to rerun configure
if your build tree is totally messed up), even if re-running 'make'
fails (which it usually shouldn't).
Last but not least: if you have a good patch for tar.m4, please consider
submitting it to the automake-patches list. We encourage downstreams to
fold back all their changes into the upstream GNU sources, so there is
as little divergence as possible.
Thanks,
Ralf
- Re: Is that a way to modify tar.m4?, (continued)
- Re: Is that a way to modify tar.m4?, Stefano Lattarini, 2010/11/25
- Re: Is that a way to modify tar.m4?, xufeng zhang, 2010/11/25
- Re: Is that a way to modify tar.m4?, Dave Hart, 2010/11/25
- Re: Is that a way to modify tar.m4?, Dave Hart, 2010/11/25
- Re: Is that a way to modify tar.m4?, xufeng zhang, 2010/11/25
- Re: Is that a way to modify tar.m4?, Stefano Lattarini, 2010/11/26
- Re: Is that a way to modify tar.m4?, xufeng zhang, 2010/11/26
Re: Is that a way to modify tar.m4?, xufeng zhang, 2010/11/25