Auto-stuff patching

[Cesare Tirabassi]

Dear all,

I have recently stumbled against a couple of packages which needed
patching the auto-stuff (configure.in, configure.ac, m4 macros etc.)
I have solved the problem by using the makebuilddir target and invoking
the needed auto-stuff there.
I was wondering if there is a preferred or more elegant way to solve
this problem?
I have seen mentions of things like DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_ACLOCAL and friends
but unfortunately I can't find any reference which explains these to
some detail.

Anybody has any tips?

Thanks,

ct

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