--On 05 June 2006 09:40 +0100 Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Surely if autoreconf will re-create the file the best solution is the
delete them from SVN? That's certainly what we've done in other places,
to be honest I have no idea why I checked all the files in anyway.
Hmmm...
That's certainly one option (and better than the current situation).
Most packages, however, ship with these files there, so you can
just type "./configure ; make" and they will build (i.e. the
autoreconf step is not necessary for non-maintainers).
However, having them in svn means that if you /do/ regenerate them,
svn will try and commit them again.
I think the best thing to do would be to delete them from svn (as
you suggest), but when building the source tarball, to "autoreconf -f -i"
(not -s) first, so at least the tarball can be built from scratch.
Out of interest why do we ask people to do "autoreconf -f -i **-s**"
(i.e.
create symbolic links) anyway? Doesn't it just make the build more
fragile to what else you put on the system?
Alex