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[Treeve Jelbert <treeve01 AT pi.be>]

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On Friday 18 June 2004 08:54, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 06:34:55PM -0700, Jason Flatt wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 June 2004 9:10 am, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > it's me whining about running installwatch during BUILD again ;)
> > > Every spell using autogen.sh in BUILD tracks three files in
> > > /usr/share/automake-1.8, since autogen.sh links to them and that makes
> > > installwatch track them.
> > > I found two workarounds, both of which aren't very nice,
> > > 1.) use the following instead of autogen.sh:
> > > local OLD_LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD"   &&
> > > unset LD_PRELOAD                     &&
> > > ./autogen.sh                         &&
> > > export LD_PRELOAD="$OLD_LD_PRELOAD"  &&
> > > 2.) run autogen.sh in PRE_BUILD (has the added side effect that sorcery
> > > asks about local configure options then)
> > >
> > > I'm not sure when that started, i think it may be related to the
> > > automake version. I'd say we should go for option 2.)
> >
> > Wouldn't converting the spell to BUILD_API=2 fix that?
>
> No, BUILD_API 2 also runs installatch before calling BUILD.


wouldn't it be better if installwatch were  only called by prepare_install, 
as 
per the original specs and fix any spells which install things before this 
point
Regards,  Treeve 

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