make dist considered harmful: odd gotcha with building elfutils rpms
Frank Ch. Eigler
fche@redhat.com
Sat Jun 15 19:37:35 GMT 2024
mark wrote:
> [...] Having each committer push generated files with their own
> variant of the tools causes generates updates that are hard to sanity
> check by others.
Indeed. Luckily, configury changes are rare, and distractingly wordy
generated-code-diffs are rarer. And if they are indeed bothersome, a
maintainer (or a bot!) could instantly regenerate the lot with any
favorite or functional version after the troublesome patches are merged.
- FChE
More information about the Elfutils-devel
mailing list