RE: please bring back program suffix for autoconf bin files

[Dan Kegel]

address@hidden wrote:
> But, outside of originally broken packaging like that, what other type
of
> local patches would cause similar rerunning all of the autotools?  And
> couldn't that be addressed by appropriate use of touch after patch?

I often need to rerun autoconf after applying a patch
to configure.in that makes the package easier to 
cross-compile.

I could patch configure, but that'd be fragile and messy,
and I'd much rather patch configure.in (and submit that
patch to the project in question, too).

- Dan