On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 09:33:01PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org> writes:

[... move autoconf phases ...]

> Phew! This too will cause a lot of rebuilds, but I guess we could put it
> on 'staging'. It would have to be committed just before starting it to
> reduce the amount of merge conflicts.

Agreed

> That said, I'm not sure how necessary this change is, but I don't have a
> strong argument against it. Other opinions welcome!

I guess there is a correct ordering and an incorrect ordering, depending
on whether or not these phases should happen before or after the shebang
patching phases. Does it work if it happens before the shebangs are
patched?

> Maybe we could add an '#:autoreconf?' parameter to gnu-build-system,
> which runs `autoreconf -vif` in a phase and automatically pulls in
> automake and autoconf (and probably also libtool). Thoughts?

Interesting!