Right now, any patch which modifies common autotools source files
triggers autoreconf. In some cases, this causes the package to be
reconfigured twice -- once by the eclass, and the second time by the
ebuild.

To avoid that, trigger autoreconfiguration only when user patches modify
these files.
---
autotools-utils.eclass | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/autotools-utils.eclass b/autotools-utils.eclass
index 4f54814..559ef0a 100644
--- a/autotools-utils.eclass
+++ b/autotools-utils.eclass
@@ -359,8 +359,9 @@ autotools-utils_src_prepare() {

local want_autoreconf=${AUTOTOOLS_AUTORECONF}

- touch "${T}"/.autotools-utils.timestamp || die
[[ ${PATCHES} ]] && epatch "${PATCHES[@]}"
+
+ touch "${T}"/.autotools-utils.timestamp || die
epatch_user
if [[ ! ${want_autoreconf} ]]; then
if [[ $(find . -newer "${T}"/.autotools-utils.timestamp
@@ -368,7 +369,7 @@ autotools-utils_src_prepare() {
-o -name 'configure.ac'
-o -name 'configure.in' ')'
-print -quit) ]]; then
- einfo 'Will autoreconfigure due to patches applied.'
+ einfo 'Will autoreconfigure due to user patches applied.'
want_autoreconf=yep
fi
fi
--
1.7.8.3