Re: [Cdrdao-devel] configure in CVS

[Andreas M. <an...@da...>]

Manuel Clos wrote:
> 
> Andreas Mueller wrote:
>  > Manuel Clos wrote:
>  >
>  >>as configure is a generated file, shouldn't be on CVS, should it?
>  >>
>  >
>  > I'm not sure about that. The generated configure files are also
>  > contained in the released archives - and I think that's good because
>  > I do not expect that everyone has the autoconf tools installed which
>  > are only required if someone is doing active software development.
>  > Release files should be maintained in CVS so that I'd say we should
>  > keep it there.
>  >
>  > Or should we release cdrdao/gcdmaster without the generated
>  > configure files in future?
>  >
>  > To rebuild the configure scripts we'll just have to run 'autoconf'.
>  >
>  > Andreas
>  >
> 
> I think that configure is not put in CVS, as it is a generated file.
> People wanting to compile from CVS should use a autogen.sh script or
> something as Giuseppe said. So this people should have autoconf anyway.
> When distributing the tarball just run the autogen.sh to people gets the
> configure script in the tarball, this way the configure will be up to
> date (I think this was the problem in Mandrake 8.0).
> 
> I will do some script as Giuseppe suggested.

Ok, I agree. Currently we will just have to run 'autoconf' so that
the script will be very trivial.

Andreas
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