[gluster-packaging] [Gluster-Maintainers] glusterfs-3.8rc1 has been released for testing

[Niels de Vos]

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 09:13:54AM +0200, Niels de Vos wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 09:29:36PM -0400, Kaleb Keithley wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Niels de Vos" <ndevos at redhat.com>
> > > To: "Emmanuel Dreyfus" <manu at netbsd.org>
> > > Cc: maintainers at gluster.org, "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kkeithle at redhat.com>, packaging at gluster.org
> > > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 5:34:48 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [gluster-packaging] [Gluster-Maintainers] glusterfs-3.8rc1 has been released for testing
> > > 
> > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 09:11:01PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > > > Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Patrick filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1223937 for this during the
> > > > > 3.7 timeframe. I'm tempted to add the need to run autoreconf in the
> > > > > release notes unless someone really wants the config.sub/guess files
> > > > > back (we'll need to update the tools on the buildserver, but I would
> > > > > consider that a good thing anyway).
> > > > 
> > > > Please do not add autotools as a build dependency : It just works with
> > > > an empty config.sub file,
> > > 
> > > Oh, that's genius! We can add an empty shell script that has a comment
> > > with suggesting to run "autoreconf --force". Some packaging environments
> > > prefer that in any case (Debian, I think) and Fedora even replaces the
> > > files automatically with their own updated copies (%configure).
> > 
> > Either an empty one or an up to date one from the latest version(s) of autoconf/automake.
> > 
> > I'm not sure I know which is the better choice. Do you?
> 
> I would go for the most practical choice. An empty (except for some
> comments) config.{guess,sub} and a note in the INSTALL file about it. If
> we would update those files from a more current version, we have to
> track future updates as well. My preference goes to solutions where we
> do not bundle any copies (script or other files) from other projects.

This patch should work nicely, in case ./configure does not receive all
requirement options (--build and --host), the scripts will complain
about it.

  http://review.gluster.org/14503

I'd appreciate it if others could review and give some comments on it.

Thanks,
Niels
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