[lxc-devel] Building lxc 1.1 from spec: configure and automake

[Dwight Engen]

On Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:51:09 +0100
Johannes Kastl <mail at ojkastl.de> wrote:

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> Hi everyone,
> 
> as 1.1 seems to be getting nearer, I wanted to start building packages
> for openSUSE. First thing I ran into is the missing configure, so one
> has to run autogen.sh first. (This is different on 1.0.x).
> 
> Unfortunately, this does not work (in my tests) with the upstream
> spec, at least not out of the box. I found a hack that defines
> %_configure to run autogen.sh, but then configure is not called
> correctly.
> 
> How could this be handled in the spec?
> 
> I also had to add automake as BuildRequires, otherwise autogen.sh does
> not find aclocal...

Hi Johannes,

I think that release tarballs will always have configure, just raw git
checkouts will not.

For Oracle's build of lxc, we run ./autogen.sh as the first line of %build,
so just before %configure runs. We do this because the version of
aclocal included with a released tarball may be too new for our build
environment, so we just regenerate. Of course this then means that we
need to add automake and autoconf to BuildRequires. If you need to run
autogen.sh in your enviroment, this would probably work for you as well.

> Regards,
> Johannes
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