Ineiev <ine...@gmail.com> writes: > On 02/08/2013 08:30 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Another place where the default behavior frequently breaks is if one is >> applying a patch to both the generated file and the source file, >> usually because one explicitly *doesn't* want to re-run Automake (often >> because there's some incompatibility with the latest version) and one >> has carefully determined the right change to make to the generated file >> and is also patching the source for documentation purposes. If patch >> happens to patch the generated file before the source file, make then >> tries to re-run Automake and everything explodes. > If one is so careful, why not care to patch the source file before > the "generated" file? Because the patch is automatically generated (from, say, a Git branch) and it's a pain to worry about having to reorder the files in it. Different people have different levels of tolerance for unnecessary hoop-jumping to get software to do what it should be doing in the first place. :) -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
