Re: Managing changes to configure.in as patches
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> As an added bonus, this also fixes the issue with patching
> autotools-related files: since patch does not care about timestamps, if
> you create one patch with changes to both configure.in and configure,
> you may end up with a configure.in which has a more recent mtime than
> it's related configure, especially on the slower architectures,
> resulting in automake trying to regenerate it. If you put them in two
> distinct patches and ensure the autogenerated files are patched after
> the source files, as you suggest, then configure cannot have a more
> recent timestamp than configure.in (of course, the same applies to
> Makefile.in vs Makefile.am, and so on).
This only matters if you configure with maintatiner-mode on.
wt
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