an update to automake-1.11?

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Mon Jul 6 22:06:31 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 17:53 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> So, the choices are, once it's identified where configure goes wrong are:
> 
> 1) Fix the configure script, with shellcode whose contents are well 
> understood
> 
> 2) Patch configure.ac, and feed it to a code generator that spits out a 
> brand new configure script.
> 
> Your turn. Of course, if you take #2, you would, of course, verify which 
> specific version of autoconf the upstream used, and whether the differences 
> between your's and upstream's autoconf does not have any other impacts on 
> the configure script.

I suppose it depends whether you consider the initial act of package
creation, or the continued maintenance of that packaging, to be more
time consuming.  All I know is that rediffing patches to configure.ac
takes way less time than rediffing against configure, and that as a
practice that hasn't (non-trivially) bitten me once in over three years,
where configure patches have.

- ajax
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