[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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?
I often need to rerun autoconf after applying a patch to configure.in that makes the package easier to cross-compile. I could patch configure, but that'd be fragile and messy, and I'd much rather patch configure.in (and submit that patch to the project in question, too). - Dan
