Re: Jade 1.2 available

[Louis-Dominique Dubeau <ldd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

apharris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Adam P. Harris) writes:

> Well, first off, Cees de Goot, not James Clark, is responsible for the
> autoconf/libtool system.  So pester Cees, not James.

???  The message was sent to the list, not to James personally.  I
would also point out that the missing executable flags on the
configure scripts are a packaging problem.  Unless I am seriously
mistaken about how jade is packaged and released, James does have a
part into this.

> Secondly, you need Cees autoconf patch 1, at least.  Cees was
> maintaining fixes for that system at
> <URL:http://www.sgmltools.org/jade.html>, which is dead right now.
> However, I do have patch 1, which I've temporarily put up at
> <URL:http://master.debian.org/~aph/jade-1.2-patch1.diff.gz>.  Note
> that the patch won't apply right on some of the RCS variables; just
> ignore that (it's Cees', not mine!)

This is not at all obvious.  Moreover, I fail to see why I should have
to patch *autoconf*.  At the time I try to build the package, the
configure script and associated files are already generated so that I
don't need to run autoconf (and I shouldn't have to).  One advantage
of the way autoconf is designed is that the developper generates the
configure script and the other files he needs before packaging the
software so that the person who tries to compile it doesn't need to
have autoconf or care about what version of it the developper used.

	Regards,
	ldd


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