Mike Castle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When building from source, one rarely changes needs to make patches to
> configure.{in,ac} and then run autotools*.
That depends on your definition of rarely. Of the 550 packages that I
maintain, I have to do this with about 30 or 40.
Note that it's often not possible to just patch configure due to broken
makefile rules that force re-running all of the autotools whenever any of
the related files are touched.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
