Re: Use of automake & friends vs. just running configure
I demand that Marcelo E. Magallon may or may not have written...
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 01:17:41AM +0200, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote:
>> So, any comment / recommendation? Better to use the whole toolchain, or
>> better to use upstream configure, when available?
> If you can avoid running auto*, please do.
> If you *have* to patch a Makefile or configure script, then by all means,
> do it. But please please pretty please, remove the cruft that gets
> generated. That means nuke configure, Makefile.in, Makefile and other
> stuff on clean. That only makes the diff bigger and noisy and imposible to
> apply cleanly to newer upstream versions [...]
If you're using something like dpatch, I suggest that you use a patch file
specifically for this kind of thing - and make sure that it's applied last.
That way, I find, it's nicely manageable.
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