[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] debian/patches/99autoconf

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

edd at basebud:~/src/debian/SVN/build-area> wc openmpi-1.2.3/debian/patches/99autoconf.dpatch
  95106  416540 3333887 openmpi-1.2.3/debian/patches/99autoconf.dpatch
edd at basebud:~/src/debian/SVN/build-area>     

Is there a way to do this more compactly than in 95k lines and 333 kbytes? 

Could we patch configure.ac and force a re-run of autoconf at build time ?

Dirk

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