Please add autoconf and automake to the buildroot

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 03:36:02PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> Patching the autotool generated files is not a good idea imho...

I disagree.  You should use autoconf/automake when you create the
patch, but not at package build time.  There are plenty of incompatible
autoconf and automake versions, trusting that autoconf and/or automake
in the buildroot happens to do the right thing with source written
often for a different version of the autoconf/automake is overly optimistic.
When autoconf generated output put the line numbers into configure
script, patching it wasn't easy, but now that $LINENO is used, things work
just fine when the patches include even changes to generated files.

	Jakub