rpms/tracker/devel tracker-desktop.patch, NONE, 1.1 .cvsignore, 1.2, 1.3 sources, 1.2, 1.3 tracker.spec, 1.2, 1.3 trackerd.desktop, 1.1, NONE

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 04:08 -0500, Deji Akingunola wrote:
> On 11/21/06, Deji Akingunola <dakingun at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/21/06, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 02:44 -0500, Deji Akingunola wrote:
> > > > Author: deji
> > > >
> > > > Update of /cvs/extras/rpms/tracker/devel
> > > > In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv8820/devel
> > >
> > > > tracker-desktop.patch:
> > > >
> > > > --- NEW FILE tracker-desktop.patch ---
> > > > --- Makefile.in       2006-11-20 13:34:48.000000000 -0500
> > > > +++ Makefile.in.new   2006-11-20 21:21:11.000000000 -0500
> > >
> > > You are patching a generated file, without providing the sources.
> > >
> > Whoops, I've long been under the impression the ./configure doesn't
> > touch the Makefile.am, that only ./autogen.sh does. I've just
> > satisfied myself I was wrong. Correct patch to Makefile.am has been
> > sent to upstream and should be corrected in the next update.
> >
> Spoke too soon, patching Makefile.am doesn't work on FC-6;

What doesn't work?

>  so how am I
> suppose to achieve what I want to do here without patching the
> generated Makefile.in?
In an ideal world you would patch both Makefile.am and Makefile.in and
not be running any of the autotools inside of the spec.

>  run ./autogen.sh in the spec file?
Forget about autogen.sh - It's a helper script and actually should not
be used at all during building, unless you exactly know what you are
doing.

Ralf