Re: [libpcap] fix typo on manpage install (#320)

[Michal Sekletar <msekleta () redhat com>]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:41:45PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Sep 23, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca> wrote:
>
> > But it means that anyone who checks out code from git is foobar if they can
> > not get the *correct* version of autoconf installed to generate the files.
>
> So, if it's possible to do so, perhaps we should have a post-commit/post-push
> hook on bpf.tcpdump.org that will run autoreconf any time configure.in or
> aclocal.m4 is changed and commit the result.
>
> That way, what's on bpf.tcpdump.org will be generated by the autoconf version
> on bpf.tcpdump.org, so we control the version of autoconf used to generate
> what goes into the tarball *and* what's used by people who check out from git
> (as long as they don't change configure.in or aclocal.m4, but there's not that
> much we can do to help people who do change them other than pointing them at
> the GNU project repository for autoconf).

I agree to have pust-update hook a keep configure checked in git. This should
work for the time being and give you control over the version of autotools used
to generate build scripts.

But is this gonna work in the long run? If there are issues with build system
which are not possible to workaround and prevent us from using new versions of
autotools then I dare to say we should introduce stable versions. For example
we might support release 1.5 on currently all platforms but move on from the old
cruft on master and deprecate platforms which are no longer relevant today. We
could start adding notes to commits in order to mark those which are worth to
backport to stable version.

Cheers,

Michal

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