Adam Williamson wrote:
I can see the argument for patching configure or Makefile.in
directly
(rather than configure.ac or Makefile.am ), too. It doesn't upstream and
is rather harder to read, I'd say, but it does have the advantage that
it doesn't depend on the behaviour of the autotools, which changes over
time. Debian's policy is this way, FWIW.
It's arguably a GPL violation to do that on a GPLed configure script without
patching the true source as well.
Kevin Kofler