[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 534324] Cannot use autoreconf

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  GStreamer | gst-ffmpeg | Ver: 0.10.x

Ross Burton changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|RESOLVED                    |UNCONFIRMED
         Resolution|NOTABUG                     |
            Summary|Cannot autogen from tarball |Cannot use autoreconf




------- Comment #3 from Ross Burton  2008-06-11 15:39 UTC -------
Our build system enforces a re-autogen (because we cross compile to non-Intel
architectures, existing configure scripts are often out of date) so we call
autoreconf after extracting the tarball.  With gst-ffmpeg this results in this:

| autoreconf: configure.ac: adding subdirectory gst-libs/ext/ffmpeg to
autoreconf
...
| autoreconf: running: gnu-configize
| gnu-configize: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required

Because you use AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS() to run the ffmpeg configure script, but
autoreconf believes that means that it needs to generate it in that directory
too.

Whether this is a bug in autoconf or gst-ffmpeg is debatable.  The autoconf
manpage says AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS runs the "configure script" in the directory but
doesn't say that it needs to be an autoconf script for bootstrapping.


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