On Thursday 07 June 2007, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
So I'd really love if the people who do not want to run autotools
at
build time generated a patch against the original archive instead of
repackaging it.
Seconded. But note that my message which started this discussion, which is
now somewhat off from the original topic, was about *further* modifications
to a tarball when there already was some other reason why it already had to
be modified before inclusion.
Turns out it wasn't a very bright idea to use autotools as a hypothetical
example to illustrate some points where not doing additional modifications
while doing the ones that absolutely must be done, sorry about that (even if
I still don't think re-running them while repackaging would be flat out of
the question).