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<bubu>hum, my english is terrible <civodul>yes, there could be a Scheme procedure that generates a derivation that runs "autoreconf" and such <bubu>so that every auto* project properly made (with dependencies declaration) would have his derivation already ready <civodul>in practice, it's not quite standardize <civodul>sometimes "autoreconf" is enough, but sometimes there are other steps needed <civodul>like "git submodule init", "gnulib-tool --update", etc. <bubu>yes, i understand this, i was just think of a quick way to "simple" projects <bubu>just no to frighten developer <civodul>though for a simple project, "autoreconf" should work :-) <civodul>and it can't really be any simpler ;-) <bubu>"make you configure.ac properly, generate the rest and just check its ok" <bubu>yes but for you derivation, you still need to fill the name, version and dependencies <bubu>then it could run autoreconf && ./configure && make afterwards <civodul>are you talking about generating a package definition from a configure.ac? <civodul>i know Nixpkgs has a script that does that +/- for Xorg packages <bubu>because i was thinking that it's hard for a lonely dev to manage properly script files for package managers as he already spent time to make something similar for autoconf <bubu>I which I had time for this, but it won't be before a few mouths at best that I can start looking at this :( <bubu>yes that what I quickly look for 20 mins ago :) <bubu>but i'm noob for parsing, the best would be to hack autoconf after it has done all the parsing <civodul>actually autoconf has an option to extract useful info <bubu>but first some sleep, gonna take some time during the week end to look for this maybe