[Dune] dune m4 tests

[Jö Fahlke]

Am Fri, 27. Aug 2010, 11:39:07 +0200 schrieb Oliver Sander:
> The problem is the following: dune-common installs m4 files with the
> same names as m4 files contained in the autoconf-archive into the
> very same location (/usr/share/aclocal).  Some of the files are verbatim
> copies, other have small modifications.  Now image you have the
> autoconf archive or some of its tests globally installed on your system,
> and you want to install dune-common.  If you are lucky you are
> using a smart package manager, which will stop you because you are
> overwriting system files.  If you install dune-common globally with just
> 'make install', the m4 files from the original autoconf archive are tacitly
> overwritten.
> 
> This is FlySpray # 813

I'd solve that by making the dune-dev packages depend on autoconf-archive and
omit the offending .m4-files from the dune-dev packages.  This should work as
long as those tests are exact copies of the same test from some suitable
vesion of autoconf-archive.

Bye,
Jö.

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