Proposal: Remove autotool-generated files from setup CVS

Max Bowsher maxb@ukf.net
Wed Mar 5 21:36:00 GMT 2003


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:10:50AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 07:05, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>> I propose removing autotool-generated files from setup CVS.
>> 
>> I am ok with this. I'm not going to participate in a flamefest like
>> that occuring when I introduced libgetopt++ w/o generated files.
> 
> I don't have any objections as long as there is an easy way to
> regenerate the files.

There is already a bootstrap.sh script which does this.

Robert: Does the order of invocation of automake and autoconf matter?

It's one way round in libgetopt++ and the other way round in setup.


Max.



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