On 07/03/2011 11:36 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Kevin Kofler writes: > >> And in addition, I consider the concept of including generated files in >> what's supposed to be a source tarball to be broken by design. A source >> tarball is supposed to contain SOURCE code, not generated code. Anything >> needing to be generated should be generated during the build process. > > Ok. You want all upstreams to remove configure.in or configure.ac, as well > as Makefile.in from their tarballs? I think you're being ironic, but just in case I am being Cpt. Obvious here: he was arguing to remove Makefile and configure. This aside, I always understood that the sense of including both configure.in and configure was a reasonable and practical compromise, that allows an average user to compile the package, while also enabling a sophisticated developer who has autotools installed to rebuild the entire package. Hence, things like 'make superclean' etc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
