On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:30 +0000, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> Caveat distropatcheum: The upstream patch requires a re-autogen as it
> changes some of the flex source files that are used to generate some of
> the distributed source files. Unfortunately this re-autogen will fail
> since autogen.sh requires some files that are not shipped in the
> tarball. So; you must check out the 2.0.3 revision, apply the patch, and
> reroll the tarball or something...
Yeah, generate the patch. Reroll tarball. Then make the diff from that
tarball to the previous one. That'll make the "final patch" include all
the Makefile and other build file changes as well. PITA, but works :-)
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:30 +0000, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> Caveat distropatcheum: The upstream patch requires a re-autogen as it
> changes some of the flex source files that are used to generate some of
> the distributed source files. Unfortunately this re-autogen will fail
> since autogen.sh requires some files that are not shipped in the
> tarball. So; you must check out the 2.0.3 revision, apply the patch, and
> reroll the tarball or something...
Yeah, generate the patch. Reroll tarball. Then make the diff from that
tarball to the previous one. That'll make the "final patch" include all
the Makefile and other build file changes as well. PITA, but works :-)
--Ted