On Thursday 02 October 2003 11:45 pm, grant beattie wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:20:35PM +0000, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> > Log Message:
> > Link libwine with -li386 so that it gets i386_set_ldt() defined.
> >
> > XXX I updated configure.ac, but I can't actually patch that without
> > running into severe automake lossage, so that patch is not named patch-??
> > right now.
>
> I suggest you patch configure.ac first then configure - that's what is
> normally done to avoid this issue.

In this case, that wouldn't work.  The problem is not a "configure: 
configure.ac" dependency, but a "Makefile: ...../configure.ac" dependency in 
every Makefile.  When it tries to run automake, it blows away a lot of 
variable settings that were planted by buildlink.