Removing concat.cc/h

Max Bowsher maxb@ukf.net
Mon Feb 3 16:46:00 GMT 2003


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
[ about deleting files in a patch for a project in cvs ]
>> You can't.
> 
> Well, turns out you kind of can...  Using "patch -E" on the receiving
> end...  But it's easier to just ask the responsible party to remove
> the files.

And you still have to ask them to do "cvs remove".

>> One thing to note: I don't know whether Igor is still using automake
>> 1.7.1, or if he trimmed the patch to only contain the relevant
>> parts, having made it with Cygwin's current automake 1.7.2.
> 
> Yep, good catch:
> 
> $ cygcheck -sv | grep automake
> automake            1.7.1-1
> automake-devel      1.7.1-1
> automake-stable     1.4p5-5
> 
> Time to upgrade?
> 
>> What is policy for setup? Should we regenerate Makefile.in (and
>> aclocal.m4, and any other relevent files) with the current Cygwin
>> release of automake, since we are changing it at all, or would you
>> prefer to keep it at the version currently used?
> 
> Oh, and to reply to your follow-up message, there is already a
> bootstrap.sh script in the main setup directory which does exactly the
> right thing...

I hadn't noticed that. 
I propose removing the generated files from cvs.


Max.



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