Re: [Flightgear-devel] Non-source files in CVS

[Ross G. <ro...@go...>]

On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 18:30, James A. Treacy wrote:
> I imagine people are confused because stable releases of software
> (.tar.gz files) generally include aclocal.m4 and configure. It may
> be a good idea to expect people using CVS to generate these
> themselves. Just make sure that they are generated before creating
> the tar.gz file for a new release or there will be a lot of people
> out there who won't know how to build flightgear.
> 

In projects that use automake for generating Makefiles, 'make dist'
knows what needs to be in a tarball and fails if these things are
missing, so this shouldn't be a problem.

--
Ross