Re: [GD-DEVEL] release creation

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Thursday 18 April 2013 17:02:32 Pierre Joye wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > i don't think checking in pregenerated files is the answer as timestamps >> > can easily get skewed, and the tools one dev has on their system vs >> > another can vary greatly. thus everytime someone generates autotools on >> > their system, they get a repo full of modified files. >> >> I agree, my only problem is that I have to find a way to get autoconf >> 2.69 or later on my dev boxes so I can build releases. This version is >> required to support newest ARM as far as I know (there is an issue >> about it). Do you know if it is available somewhere for debian 6? If I >> can avoid building it myself :) > > ah, it's unfortunate this misinformation has been spreading. you do not need > autoconf-2.69 to support aarch64. in fact, it has nothing to do with > autoconf. you just need up-to-date GNU config snapshots. if anyone tells you > different, you should also tell them to stop spreading such misinformation :). > > in Gentoo, we do this by grabbing snapshots from the GNU config projects and > then linking all versions of automake & libtool to that. a quick check on a > Debian box shows that they do a similar thing. > > so just run autoreconf -f -i like normal. then grep for > aarch64 in the > config/config.{sub,guess} files. if you see some hits, then you're fine. if you > don't, then you can update things manually on your end: > > git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/config.git > for d in /usr/share/automake*/ /usr/share/libtool/config ; do > sudo cp config/config.{sub,guess} $d/ > done > > don't worry about clobbering your installed files. these config.{sub,guess} > fragments are completely standalone. Can you add a comment/explanation here please? https://bitbucket.org/libgd/gd-libgd/issue/36/migrate-to-autoconf-269-for-arm-64-support I should also commit a README.RELEASE+script too so we don't forget how it works (or you can :) Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org