I actually never saw this, but anyhow. I would actually like that generated files like configure do not live in the source repository, because these are no primary sources. Since opinions may differ on this view, I accept it in the repo.
That reduces the number of tools needed to build FriCAS by a few items (autotools), but otherwise the FriCAS source code repo is intended to be compiled on the users site. Since we explicitly distribute configure, it should never be build on a users site (except for us developers and we certainly know how to regenerate it). Your issue can easily be worked around in the CI action script by adding a "touch configure". However, your issue might also apply for an ordinary user who cloned the repo and wants to build FriCAS. I would not like to introduce a "AM_MAINTAINER_MODE" dependency. Simply adding the line "touch configure" to the documentation "How to build FriCAS" should do. I am not sure whether I would generally like to add some code so that "./configure && make" never tries to rebuild the "configure" script. Ralf On 04.03.21 16:23, Qian Yun wrote: > I found this problem during windows CI: > > When you clone from a git repo, configure.ac can be newer > than configure, thus "make" will try to run "autoconf" > to update it. > > I found this not very nice. > > I found 2 ways to improve this: > > 1. manually "touch configure" before everything. > 2. use "AM_MAINTAINER_MODE". > > What's your opinion? > > - Qian > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/7074d46c-c34d-9b65-85d2-138b2a0bbf70%40hemmecke.org.
