Re: how to patch configure.ac and not require autotools

[Michael Thomas <wart kobold org>]

Laurent Rineau wrote:
> I would like to revive the following old discussion, five months ago (part of 
> it is quoted bellow).
>
> It would be nice to have usefull tips, or perhaps recommendations, in the 
> wiki.

I've started a page describing how to deal with this.  I'm not sure 
where it should best be placed/linked in the wiki, so I made it an 
orphan page.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MichaelThomas/AutotoolsPatching

As always, others should feel free to correct any errors and fill in any 
missing details.

--Wart

> On Monday 12 June 2006 04:23, Wart wrote:
> > Enrico Scholz wrote:
> > > wart kobold org (Wart) writes:
> > > > 'touch', not patch.
> > > >
> > > > I run into this quite a lot.  In addition to patching both configure.ac
> > > > and configure.in, you'll need to 'touch' all of the "Makefile.in" files
> > > > in the package, since they likely have a dependency on configure.in.
> > > That's only needed for projects whose authors do not use
> > > AM_MAINTAINER_MODE.
> > >
> > > Instead of touching all Makefile.in's you could restore the original
> > >
> > > timestamp with:
> > > | touch -r configure configure.stamp
> > > | ... patch configure ...
> > > | touch -r configure.stamp configure
> > That's an even better solution.  Thanks for the tip.
> >
> > --Mike