how to patch configure.ac and not require autotools

[Michael Thomas]

Laurent Rineau wrote:
> I would like to revive the following old discussion, five months ago (part of 
> it is quoted bellow).
> 
> It would be nice to have usefull tips, or perhaps recommendations, in the 
> wiki.

I've started a page describing how to deal with this.  I'm not sure 
where it should best be placed/linked in the wiki, so I made it an 
orphan page.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MichaelThomas/AutotoolsPatching

As always, others should feel free to correct any errors and fill in any 
missing details.

--Wart

> On Monday 12 June 2006 04:23, Wart wrote:
>> Enrico Scholz wrote:
>>> wart at kobold.org (Wart) writes:
>>>> 'touch', not patch.
>>>>
>>>> I run into this quite a lot.  In addition to patching both configure.ac
>>>> and configure.in, you'll need to 'touch' all of the "Makefile.in" files
>>>> in the package, since they likely have a dependency on configure.in.
>>> That's only needed for projects whose authors do not use
>>> AM_MAINTAINER_MODE.
>>>
>>> Instead of touching all Makefile.in's you could restore the original
>>>
>>> timestamp with:
>>> | touch -r configure configure.stamp
>>> | ... patch configure ...
>>> | touch -r configure.stamp configure
>> That's an even better solution.  Thanks for the tip.
>>
>> --Mike
>