Re: [Libmesh-devel] Why are generated build files committed?

[Kirk, B. (JSC-EG311) <ben...@na...>]

On Feb 2, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Jed Brown <jed...@mc...> wrote:

> So you're saying it's not supposed to work like this:
> 
> ~/src/libmesh$ ./bootstrap 
> Using autoconf (autoreconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69)
> Using libtool (libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.2)
> Using automake (automake (GNU automake) 1.13.1)
> ...
> ~/src/libmesh$ git diff --shortstat
>  80 files changed, 19707 insertions(+), 7912 deletions(-)

We aren't *that* pedantic about forcing you to use the same versions.  ./bootstrap will detect older, incompatible versions and then build compatible ones for you.

What I could do is add a ./bootstrap --compatibility or something that does force exact version matching.

-Ben