cvs commit: ports/audio Makefile ports/audio/deadbeef Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/audio/deadbeef/files patch-Makefile.am patch-Makefile.in patch-configure patch-configure.ac

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Feb 12 00:22:50 UTC 2010


On 02/10/10 04:50, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
>>>    1.1       +13 -0     ports/audio/deadbeef/files/patch-Makefile.am (new)
>>>    1.1       +21 -0     ports/audio/deadbeef/files/patch-Makefile.in (new)
>>
>> Weird.  Can you explain why both of these patches are required, since .in
>> is normally generated from .am (that is, patching .in is enough unless
>> the port needs more of autotools magic than simple "./configure")?
>
> Configure tends to rerun autotools when available sometimes, thus files
> gets regenerated, so to be on a safe side, sources are patched as well.
> Anyway, these patches will go away with the next update.

Yes, TMK it has always been common practice to patch both files "just in 
case." One never knows what may happen with future versions of auto*, 
for example.


Doug

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