[Open Office] automake 1.9 / failed patch(es)

[Karl Ostmo]

It would be cool if the ooo-build ./configure script would detect
which version of automake you were using, and not let you proceed
until you upgrade to 1.8/1.9.  I was using version 1.4, and yes, that
was the problem.

Now I have a different problem:

Hunk #1 succeeded at 594 with fuzz 1 (offset 7 lines).
patching file scp2/source/testtool/file_testtool.scp
Hunk #1 FAILED at 49.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file
scp2/source/testtool/file_testtool.scp.rej
patching file scp2/source/writer/file_writer.scp
patching file scp2/source/writer/module_writer.scp
patching file postprocess/prj/build.lst
Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file postprocess/prj/build.lst.rej
Testing patch disable-helpcontent2.diff failed. at
/home/kostmo/ooo-build/patches/apply.pl line 54.
make: *** [stamp/patch.apply] Error 1


I've obtained similar patching errors on different builds and linux
distributions.  How does one deal with failed patches?
-Karl

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