On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Jeremy Elson wrote: (at least, I think he did)
>A better solution, I think, is to advise the people who release
>patches to always patch the Makefile.in instead of the Makefile
>itself. The Makefile is automatically generated by 'configure' and
>should never be manually modified.
>
>The Makefile.in is (almost) the same as the Makefile; just make your
>changes there and then rerun the program 'config.status'. (This is
>the Makefile-generator that is created when you run 'configure').
I change both so they don't have to rerun configure but if they do, they'll
still have the correct Makefile.
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