On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:56:21AM -0700, Darren Hart wrote: > On Tuesday 24 July 2007 02:25:18 Robert Schwebel wrote: > > As autoreconf doesn't always recreate all necessary files, do the steps > > required to create everything that's needed manually. We also need > > config/m4 in order to put the autogenerated m4 files there. > > I pretty much have to take your word on that I guess - which I'm happy to do. > It seems in slight contradiction though to your previous statement > encouraging us to stick to the autotools defaults for distribution so as to > allow the tools to do their job and not accidentally miss something by doing > it manually. Is this just a common exception to that rule? We recently tried to use autoreconf to build the config files from scratch, but although it works much better than before, we've found some problems, so let's better stay with the proven old method. However, Marc may be able to elaborate more about the problems; he is our autotool wizzard :) > > Index: config/m4/.secret_world_domination_project > > =================================================================== > > --- /dev/null > > +++ config/m4/.secret_world_domination_project > > @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ > > + > > + > > And what is this all about? :-) Psssst, it's secret! :) It's just to make sure that config/m4/ is not empty, which would mean that it would sometimes disappear. Robert -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 Hannoversche Str. 2, 31134 Hildesheim, Germany Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-9 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
