Re: [Plib-users] CVS dont' contain configure scripts and Make files

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Kevin Walchko wrote:

> I downloaded plib from CVS and tried to compile it. Why doesn't the  CVS 
> have the necessary configure scripts and Make files to build the  library?

To expand a bit on previous answers:

A CVS repository is supposed to contain only the ultimate sources of
everything.  Since those configure scripts and makefiles are generated
from the ultimate sources (configure.in, Makefile.am, etc) - they don't
qualify for inclusion into CVS - which is why they aren't (and shouldn't be)
in the repository.

As someone else said - run autogen.sh to generate the relevent scripts.

If we did put them into the repository then every time one of our developers
ran autogen on his machine, it would result in a different set of scripts
being generated - so virtually every check-in or commit would result in these
files being unnecessarily updated.

End users who don't understand this kind of subtlety are encouraged to
use a released tarball which DOES include all of those scripts.

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