On Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 5:11:23 PM UTC+1, Erik Bray wrote: > > 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.)? > I'd say both...
> Should I merge them all together or keep them separate? > > ...in separate patches, the one to "source" files not being applied. > 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? > > There is a autotools spkg. If you autoreconf from a sage shell it should then use matching versions of the autostuff. -- 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.
