Re: Automake violations of the gnu coding conventions

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, K. Richard Pixley wrote:
> I'm on Ubuntu, not dos.  It's source code control, (perforce, cvs, 
> subversion), that has a different idea of how time stamps should be handled 
> than automake does.  It tends to think that the last mod time of a file 
> should be the time the file was last checked out.  And on a unix system, that 
> makes perfect sense and is completely fitting the the semantic of the last 
> mod stamp of the file system.

Mostly my bad experience has been with CVS.  Everyone will tell you 
that the solution is to never check any generated file into the 
version control system.  This requires some enforcement of tool 
versions among developers and all developers must have the tools if 
they modify any build related files.

I would go stark raving made if automake did not automatically update 
the files in the source directory since I never build anything in the 
source directory.  But I do use the maintainer-mode macro so that 
users of my package experience minimal grief.

Bob
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