Re: Files to keep in a control versioning system

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > I've been keeping the files kept by make maintainer-clean but that
> > keeps the configure script, for example, which is machine dependent (I
> > think) , so I guess I need something stricter?
>
> No, configure is not machine-dependent.

Configure is not machine-dependent but some developers may claim it to 
be so if not all developers on a project are using the same autotools 
versions. This can result in large configure script patches being 
submitted to the versioning system based on otherwise tiny changes. 
Due to this, many projects do not check the configure script into 
their versioning system.  The Makefile.in files have a similar issue.

Bob
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