Hello Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 10:28:42PM CET: > I was surprised to see diffs after running make with one of > the clean targets. These were the culprits: > > Remove generated files from version control. > * INSTALL: Remove generated file. > * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list: Remove generated file.
Well, after this patch I get a build failure. So I do autoreconf -i which causes automake to install (an outdated copy of) `INSTALL'. This copy is not updated again later, though. So unless doc/install.texi changes in-between the last time `autoreconf -i' is run, and `make dist', the distribution will carry the wrong file. What's more, at least the Automake package, but also gnulib I think, pull INSTALL from Autoconf's viewcvs (Autoconf is the primary source for the `INSTALL' file). It's likely that the location http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/~checkout~/autoconf/autoconf/INSTALL needs to be changed anyways, as it points to a stale CVS repo, but it would be unhelpful if INSTALL were not available at all for fetching. Cheers, Ralf
