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+Subject: Applying patches
+From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de>
+Date: Thu,  8 Oct 1998 14:32:53 +0200
+
+When applying patches to mutt, you may encounter strange error
+messages spit out by programs like aclocal, autoconf, automake.
+This will happen if your machine has a partial build environment
+(see devel-notes.txt for a description of what's needed for mutt
+development): Mutt has detected changes to some of the "meta source
+files" like configure.in and tries to rebuild other files such as
+aclocal.m4 or Makefile.in based on these changes; this will fail if
+your build environment is not complete.
+
+If you encounter this kind of problem, touching the following files
+after applying patches may help:
+
+       Makefile.in
+       config.h.in
+       configure
+       aclocal.m4
+
+After doing so, simply type "make"; the dependencies should take
+care of the necessary other re-building (this may quite well include
+a re-running of ./configure).
+$Id: applying-patches.txt,v 3.0 2002/01/24 13:35:07 roessler Exp $