Please add autoconf and automake to the buildroot

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Fri Sep 22 18:18:52 UTC 2006


On Friday 22 September 2006 14:01, Steve Dickson wrote:
> Now the reason the patch was not applied was because the upstream
> configuration script *did not* fail when automake was not found,
> instead it used an already existing Makefile which caused the
> corruption.

If you patch Makefile.am, aren't you supposed to call automake, autoconf, & 
aclocal again to regenerate the Makefile.in & configure scripts? Your build 
should have failed calling them if you did not BR it.

-Steve




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