help -- generating a patch

[Damien Miller]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, download (Jim Prewett) wrote:

> All, 
> 
> I'm attempting to generate a patch for 3.0.2p1.  This patch will modify
> the configure script (and another file); I would like to do it via the
> configure.ac file.
> 
> However, when I run 'autoconf ./configure.ac > ./configure.new', I get an
> unuseable ./configure.new script; both with and without my patch
> applied (including from a freshly unpacked tarball).  Here is the error:

I recreate configure by running "autoheader ; autoconf" in the source directory (with no additional arguments).

-d

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