Re: cvs update blew away configure; and I don't have autoconf

2001-01-29 Thread Didier Verna
Ronan Waide wrote: On January 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Fair enough. Modifying .cvsignore to include configure seems to have solved the problem. I guess I don't grok CVS well enough to understand the problem but I don't want to cause any pain. I wonder if adding configure to

cvs update blew away configure; and I don't have autoconf

2001-01-26 Thread David S. Goldberg
Actually, I do have autoconf, but not a sufficiently recent version to generate the configure script and I don't want to wait for my sysadmin to install it. Could someone please add the configure script to the repository? All other CVS repositories (gnus, w3 etc) provide the configure script.

Re: cvs update blew away configure; and I don't have autoconf

2001-01-26 Thread Ronan Waide
On January 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Actually, I do have autoconf, but not a sufficiently recent version to generate the configure script and I don't want to wait for my sysadmin to install it. Could someone please add the configure script to the repository? All other CVS repositories

Re: cvs update blew away configure; and I don't have autoconf

2001-01-26 Thread David S. Goldberg
Fair enough. Modifying .cvsignore to include configure seems to have solved the problem. I guess I don't grok CVS well enough to understand the problem but I don't want to cause any pain. I wonder if adding configure to .cvsignore in the repository would be appropriate, though since it's

Re: cvs update blew away configure; and I don't have autoconf

2001-01-26 Thread Raymond Scholz
Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: It's a simple rule: generated files shouldn't be in CVS, because that way lies pain and hassle. Does this also apply to the gzipped tar archive of BBDB 2.20 I find in the html directory? :-) Cheers, Ray -- Raymond Scholz - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - PGP -

Re: cvs update blew away configure; and I don't have autoconf

2001-01-26 Thread Ronan Waide
On January 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: It's a simple rule: generated files shouldn't be in CVS, because that way lies pain and hassle. Does this also apply to the gzipped tar archive of BBDB 2.20 I find in the html directory? :-) Cheers, Ray

Re: cvs update blew away configure; and I don't have autoconf

2001-01-26 Thread Ronan Waide
On January 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Fair enough. Modifying .cvsignore to include configure seems to have solved the problem. I guess I don't grok CVS well enough to understand the problem but I don't want to cause any pain. I wonder if adding configure to .cvsignore in the repository