Re: Use of automake & friends vs. just running configure
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004, Darren Salt wrote:
> > 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.
This has not worked very well for me, making the build/clean
operation not idempotent and causing build errors on the second try due
to timestamp skews after unpatch. In such packages I now use dpatch for
everything except the autotools stuff.
--
Sam.
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