Calling autoconf in a spec.

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 12:48 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> To add to that: I never recall a single instance where I couldn't fix any  
> breakage in someone else's canned configure/makefile scripts without having  
> to rerun autoconf and automake.
> 
> If there was a problem in the configure script, rather than patching  
> configure.ac or configure.in, I simply patched the configure script itself.  
> Once you understand how autoconf spews out the configure script, and you've  
> looked at a sufficient number of various configure scripts, figuring out how  
> to patch it directly, so it does what you want, is not rocket science.

The problem with doing it that way is that the patch is not
upstreamable.
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