Autotools doesn't work without autogen.sh
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Current evaluation
Closed without implementation after a maintainer said it lacked a test; later Autotools v2 gained autoreconf fallback support in PR #3398 (commit 3fabd01b9).
Resolution: closed stale
Reason: Maintainer @sergiusens closed the request with only “This is missing a test,” and no fixing change was linked then. The underlying Autotools behavior was later implemented in PR #3398, commit 3fabd01b9.
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Issue body
Old school way to do things, we should have an option to use the slick new autoreconf tool.
Launchpad Details: [#LP1507648](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1507648) Ted Gould - 2015-10-19 12:14:50 -0300
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | Closed without implementation after a maintainer said it lacked a test; later Autotools v2 gained autoreconf fallback support in PR #3398 (commit 3fabd01b9). | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | Autoreconf support was not implemented. Maintainer @sergiusens closed the request after noting it was missing a test, leaving the existing autogen.sh workflow unchanged. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed as abandoned. Maintainer rejected the suggestion to replace autogen.sh with autoreconf, citing missing tests. No fix was implemented. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without implementation. Maintainer noted the suggestion lacked a test, indicating the feature request was abandoned. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Requesting an autoreconf option instead of autogen.sh was closed without implementation. A maintainer flagged missing tests, and the request was abandoned. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed and abandoned. The maintainer noted the proposed change lacked necessary tests, and no further updates were made. The request to replace autogen.sh with autoreconf remains unaddressed. |
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Related work
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Likely Fixed By:
canonical/snapcraft#3398
(confidence 96%)
Merged Autotools v2 support for bootstrap/autogen handling, including autoreconf when configuration is absent.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1507648 Autotools doesn't work without autogen.sh | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Added an autoreconf-based Autotools option in commit 9d9a357b7 and released it in Snapcraft 0.4; later #3398 added autogen.sh/bootstrap support to v2. | |
| #1882425 autotools plugin should still honour autogen.sh if present | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Autotools v2 gained autogen.sh/bootstrap fallback support in canonical/snapcraft#3398, merged as 3fabd01b9 and released before the issue was closed. | |
| #206 Autotools plugin: Set autogen.sh executable. | snapcraft | merged | Merged PR #206 fixed LP #1530995 by making autogen.sh executable when needed and adding Autotools plugin tests (commit 85405240f). |