On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:13:51PM -0500, Tom Briggs wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Diego Sueiro wrote:
> 
> > Wouldn't it be better to have this file in CVS as an
> > empty file with a comment in it explaining the
> > rational
> > about this file? 
> > 
> > Developers who customize it should be careful not to 
> > commit it by error, though. 
> 
>    That's exactly what I'm afraid of.  Someone (most likely me, since I'm
> the only one aware of the feature at the moment, save you) could
> accidentally commit their local copy and immediately break everyone else's
> build.

If the file is autogenerated, just add a file called .cvsignore to
it's directory, and include its filename.  Then you won't accidentally
commit it.  

>    Which platform are you building on?  We've established that -include
> doesn't work on QNX, and Sam mentioned he had problems with it on one
> platform as well.  I'm just curious to know which ones (and to know if
> there's an alternative).

I suspected it was a make version issue, but it isn't.  I'm confused
here.  
           
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