Re: [Audacity-devel] configure generation

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

| From Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> 
| Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:57:09 -0800
| Subject: [Audacity-devel] configure generation
> On 11/10/2012 2:07 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > Am Freitag, den 09.11.2012, 16:08 -0800 schrieb Vaughan Johnson:
> >> On 11/9/2012 6:11 AM, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> >>> Am Freitag, den 09.11.2012, 03:27 +0000 schrieb Gale Andrews:
> >>>> I noticed someone was complaining on the -users list that they 
> >>>> could not compile HEAD. Attached is my latest diff of configure 
> >>>> after running ./autogen.sh, in case we want to review or commit 
> >>>> it. 
> >>>
> >>> The diff looks good to me.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Thanks Gale and Benjamin. Committed in r12038.
> > 
> > Why do we have the generated configure script in the svn repository? 
> 
> I was wondering the same thing, but know too little about building on
> Linux. 
>
> >I recommend to remove the configure script and tell the svn users to
> > run ./autogen.sh before ./configure. Then we do not have to deal with
> > outdated configure scripts. The tarball will not be affected by this
> > change, because the configure script will be generated before the
> > tarball is generated.

This sounds to me like a seachange in expected behaviour that
would trip up users and generate support requests.  

Very experienced users could no doubt figure what files to change
but would probably still report it as a bug. Since ./autogen.sh 
seems unexpected, they may not think it is needed even though 
they may know about it. 



Gale  


> Sounds like a good move to me.
> 
> - V

> 
> 
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