On Sat October 11 2008, Dan Nicholson wrote:
I said that you should patch configure.ac so that you can actually
send a patch upstream, like a good consumer would do. Patching a
Afaik, it is best practices to create a patch for upstream agains
configure.ac, then run autoreconf etc. locally and then create a diff between
the upstream tarball and the new contents and use this in the spec file,
which would be a patch agains configure. Then you do not need to run
autoreconf in rpmbuild.
Regards,
Till