Forwarding information that failed to be CC'd to the bug report. -------------------- Start of forwarded message -------------------- Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 16:21:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Hobley <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Bug #546445: A revised m4sh.m4 may be ineffective To: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
--- On Mon, 2/8/10, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > Why are you modifying > /usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/m4sh.m4? It doesn't work properly on my ash shell, (there are some constructs that autoconf uses, that are not considered), and I have problems sharing scripts between machines, because autoconf makes decisions based on the test machine, which do not apply to the target. > Local changes to these .m4 files are not > anticipated in the > packaging (and that's why it doesn't work). Really, this is a bad design. If the sources are newer than the frozen files or the cache, then the frozen files or cache should be updated. (We could use make here.) > please let me > know so that I can close the bug. I have forked this package, and I am making appropriate modifications to the fork. I would just forward the bug information upstream, then close the bug. (The problem only affects programs that are build from source, and Debian does not do this.) Cheers, Mark. -------------------- End of forwarded message -------------------- -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
