* Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080214 12:20]:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 07:32:18PM +0900, Michal ??iha?? wrote:
> > No you should not change orig.tar.gz, it should be exactly the same as
> > upstream provides (unless you have good reason to do so). Just delete
> > them in clean under same condition you use for copying them
> > from /usr/share, this way the change won't be present in diff.
>
> How about
>
> * build-depend on autotools-dev
> * move the upstream config.guess and config.sub to
> config.{guess,sub}.upstream in the configure target
> * copy the guess/sub from the autotools-dev location into the
> build tree, again in the configure target
> * if the *upstream files exist; move them back over sub/guess in
> the clean target
>
> That way you don't modify the orig tarball; you're guaranteed to have an
> appropriate and up-to-date sub/guess; the unpacked source is back to
> pristine upstream after the make clean target, which is particularly
> nice if you have your tree in a VCS and don't want to keep filtering the
> sub/guess changes out of commits.
Again: there is no need to save the old config.guess and config.sub.
Just delete them in clean and copy them in before configuring, all
problems solved.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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