On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 06:05 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:45:36 -0500 > Doug Goldstein <car...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > So I've just had one reservation when using epatch_user for allowing > > users to apply patches. And that's figuring out when to run > > eautoreconf. I don't necessarily want to run it unconditionally but > > sometimes users have patches which touch autoconf files but my > > existing patch set doesn't so I'm not calling eautoreconf. Does anyone > > have a suggested way to handle this? > > inherit autotools-utils
That doesn't help the numerous packages that don't ship some of the autoconf macros they use in their source tarball, and therefore require additional build-time dependencies (gnome-common, gtk-doc-am, and so forth) to provide the macros needed for eautoreconf. -Alexandre.