On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 13:19 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 01:07:56PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> 
> > So I am running the relevant autotools at build time but I still get the
> > warning.
> 
> If you run autotools at build time you should also ensure that the
> changes which autotools makes are reverted in the clean target.  This
> means that your diff doesn't get cluttered with automatically generated
> things and ensures that repeated builds of the package produce the same
> diff.gz.

I haven't seen any other packages doing that - is there an example
involving aclocal.m4 somewhere?

I really don't want to do all that for the tmpl/* files as well - I
don't see the need, copying dozens of files into foo.safe or
foo.upstream and then moving them back?

> This is the same idea as patch systems reverting the changes they make
> in the clean target.

Unfortunately, I can't get it to work either.

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