Re: build ideas

[Bryce McKinlay]

On Thursday, October 18, 2001, at 02:19  AM, Brian Jones wrote:

> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > By the way, I think developers should have the autotools installed on
> > their machine, so I see no reason for CVS to keep track of generated
> > files like configure and Makefile.in, only the originals like
> > Makefile.am.  The generated files should be part of the distribution,
> > though, since end users should not be required to have all the 
> > developer
> > tools just to use the final product.  Fortunately, automake does this
> > correctly.

I don't agree. It makes things much easier for people to build if 
Makefile.in and configure are included in the tree. Its hard to remember 
to regenerate them in your local tree every time they might have 
changed, and its a pain to have to install automake and autoconf on 
every machine you might want to develop on. On the other hand, its 
almost no additional effort to check in updated copies of the files 
whenever actual changes to them are made.

regards

Bryce.