tracking upstream's git repo and autotools

[Pierre Habouzit]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:15:00AM +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> On su, 2008-02-17 at 01:07 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> >   Well, tell that to arm or m68k buildds. On some KDE packages,
> > autoconfiguring can *literally* take hours.
> 
> Is it just running configure that takes long, or also automake and
> autoconf?

  It's the build system bootstraping, what is usually called from
autogen.sh or bootstrap.sh depending on how upstream called that script.
AKA autoconf; automake; libtoolize and friends.

  ./configure is another story, and you can't really avoid it anyways :)

-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder at debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org
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