On Monday, June 20, 2011 12:50:02 Jim Edwards wrote: > As I understand it, I should be able to bootstrap on a single system, check > in the resulting configure and Makefile.in files then on other systems > I should only need to run configure. But this doesn't seem to be working, > I get something like ... > > cd . && /bin/sh /ptmp/jedwards/glimmer-cism/gc2_trunk/missing --run > aclocal-1.10 > cd . && /bin/sh /ptmp/jedwards/glimmer-cism/gc2_trunk/missing --run > automake-1.10 --foreign > > > What do I need to do to prevent this?
checking in generated autotool files (i.e. configure and Makefile.in) is
generally discouraged. you're hitting a timestamp issue because when people
checkout/update the sources, the timestamps on the files dont match and
autotools regenerates itself automatically.
you have a few choices:
- dont check in these files and do as Eric said
- dont distribute this way ... use `make dist` and distribute the tarball as
is the standard in the world
- have everyone run `find . -exec touch -r configure {} +` before running
`./configure` ... but this wouldnt really fix use cases of `svn up && make`,
so you're better off not ...
-mike
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