On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 12:48 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > To add to that: I never recall a single instance where I couldn't fix any > breakage in someone else's canned configure/makefile scripts without having > to rerun autoconf and automake. > > If there was a problem in the configure script, rather than patching > configure.ac or configure.in, I simply patched the configure script itself. > Once you understand how autoconf spews out the configure script, and you've > looked at a sufficient number of various configure scripts, figuring out how > to patch it directly, so it does what you want, is not rocket science. The problem with doing it that way is that the patch is not upstreamable. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
