1 Subject: Applying patches
2 From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>
3 Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:32:53 +0200
5 When applying patches to mutt, you may encounter strange error
6 messages spit out by programs like aclocal, autoconf, automake.
7 This will happen if your machine has a partial build environment
8 (see devel-notes.txt for a description of what's needed for mutt
9 development): Mutt has detected changes to some of the "meta source
10 files" like configure.in and tries to rebuild other files such as
11 aclocal.m4 or Makefile.in based on these changes; this will fail if
12 your build environment is not complete.
14 If you encounter this kind of problem, touching the following files
15 after applying patches may help:
22 After doing so, simply type "make"; the dependencies should take
23 care of the necessary other re-building (this may quite well include
24 a re-running of ./configure).