On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Karl O. Pinc <k...@meme.com> wrote: > But how is it then that Alon does not run ./configure > on machine 2 above?
You do... On the target machine: tar -xf @TARBALL@ cd @TOP@ ./configure make install You must run configure in order to generate Makefile in autoconf environment. > Nothing should patch the autotools generated files, just the autotools > source files. Right? If you patch autoconf/automake stuff, you *MUST* add autoconf/automake dependency to your package, so you can regenerate the files. It is much simpler to patch also the generated files and avoid this dependency. But it is packager's call. Please understand, in order to build a package you *DO NOT* need autoconf/automake/libtool installed *AT ALL*. Best case is to approach upstream to issue a fix release in this case. Alon.
