Autotools doesn't work without autogen.sh
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Current evaluation
Adding an autoreconf option instead of autogen.sh was closed without comments or resolution, indicating the feature request was abandoned. No build system changes were implemented.
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Issue body
Old school way to do things, we should have an option to use the slick new autoreconf tool.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Adding an autoreconf option instead of autogen.sh was closed without comments or resolution, indicating the feature request was abandoned. No build system changes were implemented. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Requesting an option to use autoreconf instead of autogen.sh was closed without implementation. With zero comments and no resolution, the feature request was abandoned. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Suggestion to use autoreconf instead of autogen.sh was closed without discussion or implementation. No resolution was recorded, and the request was abandoned. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #11 Autotools doesn't work without autogen.sh | snapcraft | closed | Closed as abandoned. Maintainer rejected the suggestion to replace autogen.sh with autoreconf, citing missing tests. No fix was implemented. | |
| #1882425 autotools plugin should still honour autogen.sh if present | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Abandoned. The request for the autotools plugin v2 to preserve autogen.sh execution was closed without resolution, leaving the plugin to skip autogen.sh and run autoreconf directly. | |
| #1536700 autotools plugin doesn't call make | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without discussion, likely abandoned. The autotools plugin was reported to skip the make step before make install, causing build failures for some projects. | |
| #1817300 autotools plugin fails to build in classic confinement | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without documented resolution. No comments or patches were provided, indicating the issue was likely abandoned. The autotools plugin classic confinement build failure remains unresolved. | |
| #1611825 add multiple generator script options to autotools | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Feature request to support multiple autotools generator scripts was closed without discussion or implementation, indicating abandonment. | |
| #1661424 autotools plugin crashes while running ./configure | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without resolution or comments. The autotools plugin crash during ./configure due to a missing Python interpreter was not fixed and appears abandoned. | |
| #1621694 autotools plugin has no integration tests | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Request for autotools plugin integration tests was closed without resolution. No pull requests or commits were linked, indicating the task was abandoned. |