On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 04:08 -0500, Deji Akingunola wrote: > On 11/21/06, Deji Akingunola <dakingun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 11/21/06, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 02:44 -0500, Deji Akingunola wrote: > > > > Author: deji > > > > > > > > Update of /cvs/extras/rpms/tracker/devel > > > > In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv8820/devel > > > > > > > tracker-desktop.patch: > > > > > > > > --- NEW FILE tracker-desktop.patch --- > > > > --- Makefile.in 2006-11-20 13:34:48.000000000 -0500 > > > > +++ Makefile.in.new 2006-11-20 21:21:11.000000000 -0500 > > > > > > You are patching a generated file, without providing the sources. > > > > > Whoops, I've long been under the impression the ./configure doesn't > > touch the Makefile.am, that only ./autogen.sh does. I've just > > satisfied myself I was wrong. Correct patch to Makefile.am has been > > sent to upstream and should be corrected in the next update. > > > Spoke too soon, patching Makefile.am doesn't work on FC-6; What doesn't work? > so how am I > suppose to achieve what I want to do here without patching the > generated Makefile.in? In an ideal world you would patch both Makefile.am and Makefile.in and not be running any of the autotools inside of the spec. > run ./autogen.sh in the spec file? Forget about autogen.sh - It's a helper script and actually should not be used at all during building, unless you exactly know what you are doing. Ralf -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list