On 10 December 2013 11:37, Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: >> I thought it would do no harm. And I will send this patch to upstream, >> so it might be a little strange that I only modify the Makefile.am file >> even if Makefile.in has the same problem. > > It can actually be harmful since the modification time of Makefile.in > can be after the time for Makefile.am and things can go "very wrong" > with autotools when that happens :(
Another good reason not to modify the Makefile.in is that being a generated file, updating automake can change how it is generated, so the patch doesn't apply anymore. Ross _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
