Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:43:55 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, 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: <20011028214355.C61230@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <40396.1004031358@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:35:58PM %2B0200 References: <20011025122822.C26868@leviathan.inethouston.net> <40396.1004031358@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:35:58PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > I was always told to patch configure.in whenever possible instead of > > configure. That's the only reason I do it. > > When you're contributing patches back to the author, that makes sense. But we don't have to carry the patches around in the port. Make the patch to configure.in, mail it off; commit the patch to configure -- save some dependancies for the poor ports builder. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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