Changing configure.ac script

[Nikolay Sivov]

Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Nikolay Sivov wrote:
>   
>> Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
>>     
>>> Nikolay Sivov wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Is there any way not to include a regenerated 'configure' script into
>>>> a patch but be able to 'git fetch' it when it's changed remotely in
>>>> repo?
>>>>
>>>> As I see there is no need to patch a 'configure' file in repository
>>>> since it's always regenerated when 'configure.ac' changed.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Create two patches. One with changes to configure.ac and possibly other
>>> changes another with configure only. Of course you send only former to
>>> wine-patch. Then if you version of automake matches to the one AJ
>>> uses, git
>>> rebase will automatically throw away the later patch for being already
>>> applied upstream. Or you can always skip this patch during rebase.
>>>
>>> Same applies to any other automatically generated files.
>>>
>>>       
>> So I first of all send the one with new configure.ac and then second
>> with regenerated configure (by mine autoconf).
>>     
>
> No you don't need to send patches for any automatically generated files. So
> that means you do not send patch with changes to configure. Just keep it in
> your tree until your other patch(es) get committed.
>
> Vitaliy
>
>   
Ok, thank you.