autoconf and epel-5

[Kevin Kofler]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> I can see the argument for patching configure or Makefile.in directly
> (rather than configure.ac or Makefile.am ), too. It doesn't upstream and
> is rather harder to read, I'd say, but it does have the advantage that
> it doesn't depend on the behaviour of the autotools, which changes over
> time. Debian's policy is this way, FWIW.

It's arguably a GPL violation to do that on a GPLed configure script without
patching the true source as well.

        Kevin Kofler