[sane-devel] Autotools generated files and CVS

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Chris Bagwell <chris at cnpbagwell.com> writes:

> On 1/18/2009 8:50 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>> See also, http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Files-under-CVS.html#Files-under-CVS.
>>
>>    
> Agree with all your comments... Also, here is similar link from
> Automake that describes cvs issues in a little more detail.
>
> http://sourceware.org/automake/automake.html#CVS

Thanks.

> I'll continue down the current path of checking in updates until we
> are at the automated bootstrapping point.  I guess it won't be to
> conveniencing that its painfree on users to remove generated files
> until it truly is pain free.

Sounds okay.

> BTW, on all projects I've worked on, I've usually commited to making
> sure configure.ac and Makefile.am's work with widest range of
> autotools as possible; even when those tools are known buggy.  So far
> I've not had much issues with supporting +/- 2 years or more worth of
> versions.  In other words, keeping it pain free to a wide swath of
> developers.

Same experience here but limited to Linux distributions as we haven't
really been looking at the BSDs, OS/2 and what not.

Hope this helps,
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