Re: [xine-devel] cvscompile.sh in dist tarball??

[Siggi L. <si...@us...>]

Hi Daniel,

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Daniel Caujolle-Bert wrote:

> > is there any particular reason for distributing the cvscompile.sh scrip=
t
> > in the dist tarball of xine-ui?
>=20
> =09Yep, as usual i want to have a real full complete tarball at
> make dist stage. I know, final user don't need it (sometimes)=B8 but this
> can be useful in a soon futur, when we use newer autoconf/automake
> version,
> since old and new are *mostly* uncompatible, at least user can recreate
> a working version of configure and friends.

But the configure script is totally independent from autoconf&friends, so
this shouldn't matter at all...

> =09Plus, if a user accidentaly execute a "make maintainer-clean", just
> to see what happen, he can save his life himself ;-).

Well, they can save their life with "tar xzvf xine-ui-x.y.z.tar.gz".

> Also, i like to
> bring a small tarball myself, and killing configure script drastically
> reduce the tarball size.

Okay, for that, it's useful. But be aware that most users have problems
using autoconf and automake. If they are not developers, they won't have
auto* installed...

Regards,
=09Siggi