an update to automake-1.11?
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Sun Jul 5 21:30:45 UTC 2009
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 10:45:46AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> What line number changes? You cut a patch against configure, and you're
> done. That's it.
And you get a big patch containing line numbers. Here's a single line
change to configure.ac, and the corresponding patch that generates:
http://annexia.org/tmp/configure.patch
Note: I'm not even changing the version of autoconf, because really
what you mean is I have to track down the exact same version of all
autotools that the upstream author used. If you don't do that, then
you get a _real_ big patch.
> I fail to see any substantive difference between that, and patching any
> other file in the source tarball. With a subsequent release, you'll still
> have to rebase your existing patch, if the new release did not fix the
> original bug.
No you don't - often patches continue to work over versions. Not in
the case where you're patching a binary of course ...
Rich.
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