In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
Or when the original source package has time-stamps which cause that to
happen even without touching anything!
But, outside of originally broken packaging like that, what other type of
local patches would cause similar rerunning all of the autotools? And
couldn't that be addressed by appropriate use of touch after patch?
mrc
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