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From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:26:54AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:20:53PM -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote:
> >
> > Mr. Obrien isn't questioning the use of autoconf when you are patching
> > configure.in,
> 
> Actually David am questioning why configure.in is being patched rather
> than just configure.
> 
Ah, I read it wrong and Will read it right, sorry.

I was always told to patch configure.in whenever possible instead of 
configure.  That's the only reason I do it.

-- 
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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