David Sommerseth wrote: > > Nothing should patch the autotools generated files, just the > > autotools source files. Right? > > Correct, that was my mistake. I initially meant autotools source > files.
As Alon pointed out it would be less intrusive to patch the files that were generated by autotools, if needed when creating a package. Especially for long term support I'd strongly prefer that, over patching the autotools source files. //Peter