From: Andreas M. <an...@da...> - 2001-08-15 18:15:16
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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 -- Andreas Mueller Tel: +49 89 67808848 Ramsmeierstr. 1 Email: an...@da... 85579 Neubiberg, Germany |