Subject: Re: pkg/7254: when compiling fetchmail, autoheader is invoked
To: None <netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: NAKAJIMA Yoshihiro <nakayosh@kcn.ne.jp>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/28/1999 01:25:18
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:40:30 -0500 (EST)
woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) wrote:

> If configure.in is being patched then the correct procedure would seem
> to be to use, autoconf, particularly since it's in the pkgsrc tree, and
> especially since patching the generated configure script can result in
> huge patches.

In this case (fetchmail-4.7.7), config.h.in updated by
autoheader is same as the original one.

I don't have obvious opinion whether everyone needs to install
autoconf/automake or not.

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nakayosh@kcn.ne.jp