autoconf and epel-5

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Feb 26 15:30:28 UTC 2009


Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Here's the patch to configure which we are proposing from now on to
> add to Fedora CVS because the change is "easier to understand" or
> something.

This isn't even the worst case. One-line configure.ac changes can cause a
lot of these:
-  echo '#line 4652 "configure"' > conftest.$ac_ext
+  echo '#line 4888 "configure"' > conftest.$ac_ext
And one-line Makefile.am changes can cause changes all over the generated
Makefile.in files.

        Kevin Kofler




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