[Pkg-fglrx-devel] r300

[Patrick Matthäi]

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Michael S Gilbert schrieb:
> On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:33:09 +0200 Patrick Matthäi wrote:
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>> Michael S Gilbert schrieb:
>>> i'm curious as to why the automatically generated autoconf files were
>>> restored.  they are unnecessary, since debian/rules runs autoconf
>>> at build time; thus automatically regenerating those files anyway.  i
>>> tested and verified that the man pages were indeed built correctly
>>> after my changes.  you can also verify that they are unneeded by running
>>> "make maintainer-clean".
>> You need many files, like e.g. the Makefile.{in,am} for the configure
>> creation etc, also missing, aclocal (all for autogen.sh which is called
>> in debian/rules).
> 
> Makefile.in is the output of configure; Makefile.am is the input.
> aclocal.m4 is the output of aclocal (run by autogen.sh); acinclude.m4
> in the input.
> 
> you have restored autogen's output files, which are unnecessary.  you
> have also restored NEWS.html, which is automatically built from the
> NEWS file in the make process.
> 
> was there something tangible that was broken by my changes?  if so, let
> me know what it is, and i will fix that directly.

Yes, fglrx FTBFSed. Did you try to build it in a clean pbuilder sid
chroot environment with your changes?

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