Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Some autoconf/automake/... changes checked in
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Gilbert Ramirez Jr. wrote:
> 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.
>
> [But Gerald] 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.
This is fine with me, as long as it's not too much of a hassle for the
other developers. I'm using the "make dist" to generate the tarball, so
"configure" needs to be present at that time anyway.
If the cleverness of automake is a problem, we can always force files
to be included in the tarball by adding them to the EXTRA_DIST section
of Makefile.am.
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