Ben Jackson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:15:20PM -0500, Dan McMahill wrote: >> Unless someone can really convince me otherwise I'd like to remove all >> the generated Makefile.in's, configure, aclocal.m4, config.h.in and >> other files from pcb's cvs. > > I don't like raising the bar for CVS users. Also, last time DJ checked > in a generated file from a slightly outdated automake I was able to track > down the build problem quickly by looking at the diff to see that he'd > gone back a rev and exactly what effect that had had.
I don't particularly like raising the bar either but I guess I don't feel like those are much of a bar and it presents a major pain if you're touching any of those files and you don't have the right version. For example, joe user has a checkout from cvs. He happened to run autogen.sh. Now I check in a new Makefile.in from a different version and he now gets cvs conflicts on the next update. >> that there are lots of spurious diffs for developers when slightly >> different automake versions are used. > > This will just push the problem to many spurious build problem reports > when people have to run autogen themselves. The first time I built gaf > from the repository it carefully vetted my auto* versions and then > proceeded to crap all over itself because the version checks were way out > of date and the input actually required much newer tools. > perhaps fixing the version checks and docs will help here. I've hopefully done just that for pcb. _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
