Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch and autotools projects.

[Robin Green]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 03:39:51PM +0200, Eske Christiansen wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I have been using tla for some time now but I have not found a good way 
> to
> handle files that are made with autotools and I would like to hear what 
> you guys (or girls) do.
> 
> Whichs files is wise to include under revision control some of the 
> files change alot in the first time of the project and later on they 
> seldom change. (like aclocal and configure etc) (it is nice to have 
> them when you check out a project and it is "professor" friendly if 
> they just have to type "./configure";make;make install

It is standard practice in many open source projects that

- the source tarballs have already have autoconf etc. run on them so
  you can start with ./configure

- but from the CVS (or whatever) repositories, you have to run autoconf
  on the principle that files generated from other files in the project
  should not generally be under revision control

-- 
Robin

Weblog: http://lrp.greenrd.org/

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