[BRLTTY] problem with the gentoo ebuild andthe latest code

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by covici at ccs.covici.com on 2015/12/14 at 15:07 -0500]

>The comments in the ebuild are
>     # We run eautoconf instead of using eautoreconf because brltty uses
>     # a custom build system that uses autoconf without the rest of the
>     # autotools.
>     eautoconf
>
>So, is this no longer the case?

It's true that brltty uses just autoconf, i.e. none of the other autotools. 
Nevertheless, an assumption is being made that's incorrect. Brltty's mktar 
script makes a tar file that's ready for distrubition. This includes making the 
configure script.

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