From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 25 10:50:35 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 341C037B401; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:50:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9PHo5P01335; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:50:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:50:05 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." , Will Andrews , Maxim Sobolev , John Baldwin , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake Makefile distinfo pkg-plist Message-ID: <20011025105005.D1211@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20011025122822.C26868@leviathan.inethouston.net> <40396.1004031358@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <40396.1004031358@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:35:58PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Agreed. Often I patch both configure.in and configure (for most of the things we patch, I just didn't see the need to require a ports builder to have ton's of dependancies installed). -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message