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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake Makefile distinfo pkg-plist 
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:23:28 CST, "David W. Chapman Jr." wrote:

> I don't have a problem doing this from now on, its just in the beginning I
> was forced and trained to patch configure.in and I think that's why a lot of
> ports committers do it.  If we patch configure instead of configure.in
> though what would we need autoconf for any more?

Now you're getting it. :-)

Some software isn't distributed with a configure file at all and
configure.in _must_ be used to generate it.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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