Laird Nelson writes:
>
> However, it strikes me that getdate.c is a generated file (after all
> it's made from some combination of its previous self and a yacc file).
> If it's a generated file, why isn't there an entry for it in
> lib/.cvsignore in the distribution? Should I check in the "made" copy
> of getdate.c or the getdate.c that existed before I ran make?
For various reasons, the CVS source repository isn't exactly "kosher" --
it contains a number of generated files, which most people would say
don't belong in the repository. Since they are there, however, they
need to be kept up-to-date, so you wouldn't want them to be included in
.cvsignore.
As long as you have yacc and it works right, it shouldn't matter whether
you use the original getdate.c or the new one. On the general principal
of not fixing things that aren't broken, I generally keep the original
version rather than remaking it.
-Larry Jones
All girls should be shipped to Pluto--that's what I say. -- Calvin
