Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Some autoconf/automake/... changes checked in

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From: gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gilbert Ramirez Jr.)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 21:31:47 -0600 (CST)
As Guy Harris said:
> 
> Should files generated by "automake", "autoconf", "autoheader", and
> "aclocal" be in CVS?  *Not* putting them in CVS would clear up the
> problem I noted, although
> 
> 	1) it means you have to run all the "auto*" stuff if you check
> 	   out a fresh CVS tree;
> 
> 	2) that means you have to have that stuff even if you aren't
> 	   tweaking any of the "*.in" or "*.am" files;
> 
> 	3) "automake" *might* not be clever enough to include them as
> 	   part of a tarball when you do "make dist".

I would not miss these files if they were removed from CVS. All developers
would need to have automake/autoconf/autoheaders installed on their
development computers, however. 

Butald would have to create "configure" for his tarball releases
because we can't require ethereal users to have the auto* scripts on
their computers just to compile ethereal.

--gilbert

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