Re: [Ltib] what is the need for the autoconf tools in /opt/ltib/usr/bin?

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Jurgen,

Reading between the lines, it sounds like you're trying to generate the 
configure script using the autotools in LTIB?

If so, you can't reliably do this as the autotools is not portable 
across versions.  This means while you're developing a package, you must 
use your own autotools to run autoconf and friends to generate configure 
etc.

The reason ltib has this is to satisfy the dependency on one particular 
target package (I can't recall the details right now).

So to be clear, when building an ltib .spec file, the configure script 
should already be in the sources.  This is normally how a package 
maintainer would release a package.  BTW: this is not a LTIB issues, any 
other build system would need the same thing as you can never rely on 
the same results from different versions of the autotools.

Regards, Stuart


On 26/10/11 08:09, Lambrecht Jürgen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> because I am adding an other echo canceler to linphone, I used the
> automake and autoconf tools to update the makefiles.
> But my PC's autoconf is version 2.67 and ltib one's is 2.57. And this
> gave a nasty bug during ltib build.
>
> My question is:
> Why are those tools installed by ltib, and not set as host requirement
> (why the remark "Not required we install: automake target package" on
> http://ltib.org/documentation-LtibFaq) ?
> (The same question in a different way: As workaround, I just deleted the
> ltib automake/conf tools; are there side effects?)
>
> Kind regards,
> Jürgen