Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:28:11 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, "Will Andrews" <will@physics.purdue.edu>, "Maxim Sobolev" <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, "John Baldwin" <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake Makefile distinfo pkg-plist Message-ID: <16774.1004365691@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:23:28 CST." <004501c16085$472c7fa0$fe0c4042@inethouston.net>
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:23:28 CST, "David W. Chapman Jr." wrote: > 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? Now you're getting it. :-) Some software isn't distributed with a configure file at all and configure.in _must_ be used to generate it. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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