On Feb 6, 2008 10:33 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael> I need to change the way configure works for a port. Is it > Michael> better to patch configure or change the underlying files and > Michael> regenerate configure? > > Patching configure is going to be very fragile. Your patch will almost > certainly break with the upstream authors upgrade to a newer version of > autoconf. If you absolutely, positively have to patch something, patch > the > inputs to configure, not configure itself. >
This sounds like a better plan. How do I get macports to regenerate the files once I patch the configure inputs? On a related note. Is there any good examples of replacing AC_CHECK_HEADERS macros with pkg-config?
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