Hi, I'm in the process of patching a couple spkgs that use autotools build systems. I've done this in the past in Sage but it's never been quite clear to me what the correct process should be. In this particular case I am patching both confgure.ac and Makefile.am files.
Should I add just patches for the input files, or should I also include patches for the output files (configure, Makefile(.in), etc.)? Should I merge them all together or keep them separate? Further, for patching the generated files, what's a good way to go about that? If I don't have the exact versions of autoconf and automake as were used in the upstream sources then I can wind up with a lot of unrelated changes in the generated files. How are you normally dealing with that? I couldn't find any guidance on this in http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/ Thanks, Erik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
