On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:18:14AM +0000, Pierre Asselin wrote: > Lars Brueckner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > An alternative would be to see if you can live without > the missing files. Usually they are generated files that > the developers don't want in *their* repository, but they > include them in the tarballs to remove the dependency > on the tools that generates them. If you have the tools, > you can leave them out of your repository too. >
Mozilla will not build without some of these files, that was the reason I stumpled upon this. Will try to report this upstream. > (I do hate tarballs with .cvsignore's, though.) They are actually quite useful if you plan to have your own CVS :-) I wonder what was the reason to implement -I ! with this strange semantic in the first place. Almost all Makefiles offer a distclean... Regards, Lars -- Lars Brückner [EMAIL PROTECTED] IT Transfer Office, Darmstadt University of Technology http://www.ito.tu-darmstadt.de _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs
