darcs patch: add README to warn about autoreconf

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Tue Jun 12 19:11:24 EDT 2007


On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:26:36PM -0600, cdsmith at twu.net wrote:
> Fri Jun  1 11:55:27 MDT 2007  cdsmith at twu.net
>   * add README to warn about autoreconf
> 
> New patches:
> 
> [add README to warn about autoreconf
> cdsmith at twu.net**20070601175527] {
> addfile ./README
> hunk ./README 1
> +To build this package using Cabal directly from darcs, you must run
> +"autoreconf" before the usual Cabal build steps (configure/build/install).
> +autoreconf is included in the GNU autoconf tools.  There is no need to run
> +the "configure" script: the "setup configure" step will do this for you.

This is really up to Christopher as the regex-posix maintainer, but we
should probably try to be consistent between Cabal packages here, i.e.
this sort of thing ought to be in the same place in any Cabal darcs
checkout.

I don't think README is the best name, as some Cabal packages will want
to put README into the source tarball. Perhaps README.darcs?

Incidentally, regex-posix gives TextRegexLazy at personal.mightyreason.com
as its maintainer but "darcs send" goes to libraries at haskell.org; is
that what you want to happen, Christopher?


Thanks
Ian



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