On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: > On 24.5.2010 23.51, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: >>> On 24.5.2010 1.54, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>>> ive updated eautomake to run automake in a few more edge cases. hopefully >>>> this doesnt break anything else (seems to not on my system), but who knows. >>>> >>>> if you see random eautoreconf/eautomake failure, try backing out the >>>> autotools.eclass change first. >>> >>> I think any autotools.eclass behavior changes would benefit from being >>> sent to gentoo-dev for review first. >> >> if i felt most people had an understanding of how autotools worked let >> alone how autotools.eclass, then perhaps i would > > And what do you loose by sending them here? The devmanual text strictly > doesn't enforce it but strongly encourages: "Before updating eutils or a > similar widely used eclass, it is best to email the gentoo-dev list."
so prove me wrong and post some useful feedback on the change. i'm simply being realistic. sources.gentoo.org/eclass/autotools.eclass?r1=1.97&r2=1.98 -mike
