What is your reason for not using AM_MAINTAINER_MODE macro? all the reasoning against it is hopelessly outdated, and just irregular for projects using git.
On Thu, 4 Mar 2021, 15:45 Ralf Hemmecke, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > . > -- 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/CAAWYfq3FcKB5AVCVLYCfmpn_brC_tKQhNoK0TP%2BzXcU84r%3DD8A%40mail.gmail.com.
