From owner-cvs-all Mon Oct 29 6:23:26 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 748EA37B401; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 06:23:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from dwcjr (unknown [66.64.12.254]) by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D507110F429; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:23:23 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <004501c16085$472c7fa0$fe0c4042@inethouston.net> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: "Sheldon Hearn" , Cc: "Will Andrews" , "Maxim Sobolev" , "John Baldwin" , , References: <5067.1004347226@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake Makefile distinfo pkg-plist Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:23:28 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:43:55 PST, "David O'Brien" wrote: > > > > When you're contributing patches back to the author, that makes sense. > > > > But we don't have to carry the patches around in the port. > > Make the patch to configure.in, mail it off; commit the patch to > > configure -- save some dependancies for the poor ports builder. > > That's how I see it as well. Sorry if the brevity of my message left > you thinking I meant something else. > I don't have a problem doing this from now on, its just in the beginning I was forced and trained to patch configure.in and I think that's why a lot of ports committers do it. If we patch configure instead of configure.in though what would we need autoconf for any more? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message