Re: cairo packaging and Makefile.am.features
"Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <[email protected]>
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On 15.04.2017 20:49, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Those who build from source - mostly the dist packages - tend to do lots > of patching. And then they likely have to regenerate everything. > That's why many distros (or at least many packagers) always do that. > > > Bad distros are like that... No, actually *good* distros - they fix up crap coming from the various upstreams (which often even don't care about clean build process) and make sure that everything's rebuilt reliably. Given the hassles we had w/ autofool in the last decades, never trusting anything autogenerated and always rebuild from scratch, in isolated environments, is the best one can do (except rewriting the build scripts completely) --mtx -- cairo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo