[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] [Fwd: Re: debian/patches/99autoconf]

[Manuel Prinz]

Am Sonntag, den 24.06.2007, 10:09 -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> As you and both don't seem to know, why don't we stop conjecturing and wait
> for Manuel to sort this out, ok ;-) ?

Sorry for causing confusion! One of the patches [1] modified one or more
of the Makefile.am files. So all I did was applying all patches, run
"autoreconf" to apply the changes in the Makefiles and running dpatch,
saving the changes as 99*.

At least that was what I thought Steve did: He modified some autotools
input files, saved the patch as a single patch and saved the
modfications done by invoking autoreconf as 99* dpatch. So one doesn't
really need to care about the modifications done in the autogenerated
files, having the "real" changes in a seperate patch.

Maybe I heavily misunderstood this technique. I guess running automake
as part of the build process after applying the patches might work, but
you won't get back to pristine sources afterwards because those can't be
deapplied again. Or did I get something wrong here?

Manuel, who had to abort his vacation because of an accident

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 1. I can't recall which one, I think those from Tilman. I may be wrong.