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Re: RFS: failmalloc



* Jon Dowland <jon+debian-mentors@alcopop.org> [080214 12:20]:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 07:32:18PM +0900, Michal ??iha?? wrote:
> > No you should not change orig.tar.gz, it should be exactly the same as
> > upstream provides (unless you have good reason to do so). Just delete
> > them in clean under same condition you use for copying them
> > from /usr/share, this way the change won't be present in diff.
> 
> How about
> 
> 	* build-depend on autotools-dev
> 	* move the upstream config.guess and config.sub to
> 	  config.{guess,sub}.upstream in the configure target
> 	* copy the guess/sub from the autotools-dev location into the
> 	  build tree, again in the configure target
> 	* if the *upstream files exist; move them back over sub/guess in
> 	  the clean target
> 
> That way you don't modify the orig tarball; you're guaranteed to have an
> appropriate and up-to-date sub/guess; the unpacked source is back to
> pristine upstream after the make clean target, which is particularly
> nice if you have your tree in a VCS and don't want to keep filtering the
> sub/guess changes out of commits.

Again: there is no need to save the old config.guess and config.sub.
Just delete them in clean and copy them in before configuring, all
problems solved.

Hochachtungsvoll,
	Bernhard R. Link


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