Author: Philip Hazel Date: To: pcre-dev CC: danielg Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] Missing files in SVN
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Philip Hazel wrote:
> I managed to get this to work by a nasty hack: hide config.status when
> running configure, then restore it afterwards. I don't like this. It
> relies too much on the internal behaviour of ./configure. I am going to
> try something different:
>
> Copy into _generic the necessary files for running configure, then run
> it locally there.
OK, that seems to work and is cleaner. I have committed the patch.
Please try it out and see if it works for you. It copies the files
configure and *.in into the temporary directory, so it should cope with
the addition of any new .in files in future.
