Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:58:39 -0600 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: "Sheldon Hearn" <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, "Will Andrews" <will@physics.purdue.edu>, "Maxim Sobolev" <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, "John Baldwin" <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake Makefile distinfo pkg-plist Message-ID: <000901c1609a$f54ed960$fe0c4042@inethouston.net> References: <16774.1004365691@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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> > 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. > I'll start patching configure instead now, but I think it should be in the porters handbook somewhere that you should patch configure instead of configure.in, is this something we need to get portmgr's approval from? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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