Re: [Protux-devel] Change of autoconf strategy in CVS

[Luciano Giordana]

> Due to that i think about to remove most of the autostuff files from CVS,
> just leaving the configure.ac, all the Makefile.am and the acinclude.ac
> only... This forces everyone who uses CVS to have autotools in the correct
> version installed (or a compatible version, as there is more than just one
> working ;-)... But currently you already need it... so this won't change
> anything.

I agree, I am doing it my self by ignoring the files that can be regenerated

> So removing most autotool files won't change anything from the user point,
> but will prevent having CVS conflicts in configure and Makefile.in as we
> often have now... which result in broken ./configure scripts and strange
> errors as we have seen too often.
>
> Just a note about releases, once libmustux/protux has been built
> succesffully (you can run make without it rerunning autotools), all
> timestamps are correct, so it's possible to make a distribution tarball
>
> _without_the_end_user_needing_to_have_autotools_installed_ !!!

this is good. very good :-)


> So i think that's an important point which should be done, but i'd like
> feedback (Luciano ?) before doing it.




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Luciano Giordana
Free Software Developer / Musician
Project Protux : Professional Audio Tools for GNU/Linux
http://www.nongnu.org/protux