gmerlin-avdecoder ready?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:16:41AM +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>On 2011-01-12 22:04, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:14:40PM +0100, Alessio Treglia wrote:
>>> The clean target in debian/rules needs some work:
>>
>> Looks like new upstream "release" ships with automade files.
>>
>> Then sure it needs changes: The previous "release" needed them 
>> generated during build, and thus - for VCS sanity - carefully cleaned 
>> up as well.
>>
>> See commit 7329d.
>
>ah, i thought the reason for all this was, that some patches 
>(autoconf_removed_sources.patch and system_gsm.patch) will modify 
>configure.ac and Makefile.am, so the autotools have to be re-run.
>
>since running autotools will then modify some files, i don't see a 
>clean solution to make the "clean" target indeed restore upstream.
>
>what do you propose?
>- - patch configure/Makefile.in instead of configure.ac/Makefile.am?
>- - add a pre-configure target that creates backups of the to-be-modified
>files and restores them on clean?
>- - ...

Patches to autogenerated files might be applied in wrong order, and thus 
potentially cause semi-random FTBFS.

Yes, I would preserve the to-be-regenerated files, and restore in clean.

See liblrdf for an example of doing that tightly.  Or tell me if you 
have ideas to do it more elegantly :-)


  - Jonas

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