[Bug 18322] Cannot recreate "configure" script

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322

Philip Ashmore  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Philip Ashmore   2009-05-02 04:48:27 ---
Thanks for your quick reply.

I can see that I haven't succeeded in making the problem abundantly clear so
let's try again.

1. I want to build a package based on Wine
2. I need to modify configure.ac
3. I need the existing Wine source distribution to be able to recreate the
"configure" script from a changed configure.ac

I'm stuck at (3) above because it requires that the existing Wine source
distribution is able to at least recreate the configure script from an
_unmodified_ configure.ac

I'm running Debian Lenny amd64.
To test this yourself, go through the following steps.

Obtain the source bzipped tar ball "wine-1.1.20.tar.bz2" into a directory
writeable by you as a normal user and run the following bash script

mkdir tmp    # You need these otherwise (like me) wineinstall will look
    cd tmp       # for "configure" in the _parent_ directory of wine-1.1.20
    tar -xjf ../wine-1.1.20.tar.bz2
    cd wine-1.1.20
    rm configure # We're testing that wineinstall will re-generate this
    tools/wineinstall

Like me, you should get

Wine Installer v1.0

You're running this from the wrong directory.
    Change to the Wine source's main directory and try again.

It looks like wineinstall doesn't even try to regenerate configure.

As for reading the documentation, which version? I got "Autoconf, Automake and
Libtool" from
   http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook-1.5.tar.gz
In chapter 8 of this book there is a section called "bootstrapping" that
indicates that how you get to the point of running configure is a matter of
taste - the options offered were "autogen.sh", "bootstrap2, "autoreconf" and
"AM_MAINTAINER_MODE", non of which are available in the Wine source
distribution.

I also noticed that "aclocal.m4" is hand-written, not generated from
configure.ac by aclocal, and this would lead me to the conclusion that Wine is
a non-standard Autotools project and therefore might have a non-standard means
of re-generating "configure".

Sure, I can "try" running autoconf and see if that works, but gee I thought it
might be nice if you could please tell me how you did it, so I can do it the
same way!