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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 26 June 2007 at 10:35, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
| > 1)  debian/patches/99* modifies some .am/.ac files
| I don't know if you are talking about what you want or what we have now
| but the 99* is only touching the configure
| (http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-openmpi/openmpi/trunk/debian/patches/99autoconf.dpatch?op=file&rev=5&sc=0)

Yes, and conceptually there is no reason why the same could not be achieved
by patching the underlying configure.ac directly.

Which should shrink the patch from 3.2 megabytes (!!) down to just a few
kilobytes.

I was just sloppy in my writing referring to .ac/.am.

Sorry about the confusion.

Dirk

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