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Re: --without-cvs
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Cc: Andrew Walrond <andrew at walrond dot org>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 17 Mar 2003 17:03:23 -0300
- Subject: Re: --without-cvs
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <3E7601FC.7040201@walrond.org> <jesmtlrcn8.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
On Mar 17, 2003, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de> wrote:
> Andrew Walrond <andrew at walrond dot org> writes:
> |> Could somebody explain what --without-cvs is used for?
> It suppresses makefile commands that would try to check in modified files
> that are auto-generated, but included in the repository, like configure
> scripts.
Even though I personally dislike this default as well, I see a point
in it. Even though it may seem inappropriate for 100%-LDBL_MIN of the
users, it will flag to others that they got files rebuilt locally that
probably shouldn't have been rebuilt (i.e., they should be up-to-date
in CVS, and if they seem to be out-of-date, it's just because the
local timestamps don't always follow check-in time stamps).
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