On 27 January 2014 04:34, Robin Haberkorn <[email protected]>wrote:


>   * You should not commit generated files (autotools) into the SVN
>     repository. Everyone who has to regenerate the autotools files for
>     one reason or another is left with dozens of locally changed files
>     and will face merge conflicts if you choose to commit your version
>     of auto-generated files.
>     I suggest removing all auto-generated files from the
>     repository and setting the svn:ignore property on the parent
>     directories to ignore these files instead. When you create source
>     tar-balls with "make dist", automake is smart enough to include
>     some of the auto-generated files like "configure" automatically.
>

This is just my opinion, but I'm very glad that these files are committed
into the repository. This is because getting a fully working autoconf
environment is ridiculously hard. I'm running two different Linux
distributions (Ubuntu and Arch) as well as OSX on my machines, and not a
single one of them can successfully run autoconf on this (and many others)
project.

Regards,
Elias

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