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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 28 June 2007 at 03:02, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
| Le mercredi 27 juin 2007 à 09:52 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
| I have the feeling to state the obvious (or I am not understanding the
| thread) but the difference of configure is not related to the
| modification in the Makefile.am. Here, the difference is the version of

Maybe my wording was sloppy.  Configure uses inputs, such as configure.ac as
well as various .m4 files to create a file configure. Automake create
Makefiles.in from Makefile.am, the Makefile.in is then used by configure. So
I was sloppy.  What I was trying to get at was that rather than having one
undecipherable and HUGE 3+ mb file, we should have a more parsimonious and
compact patch in one of the other files of the autoconf/automake/auto*
toolchain, eg configure.

Best, Dirk

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