Proposal: Remove autotool-generated files from setup CVS

Max Bowsher maxb@ukf.net
Thu Mar 6 12:07:00 GMT 2003


Robert Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 20:52, Marcel Telka wrote:
>
>
>> $0.02:
>> What about one `autoreconf` call instead of twiddling with
>> autoconf/automake/autoheader/auto... call order?
>
> Blurk.
>
> If you're comfortable with autoreconf, just run it directly.
>
> Bootstrap exists to do the right thing for us.

What do you think of my proposed additions to bootstrap.sh?

Also, I'd like to request approval to add "foreign" to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in
Makefile.am. It's given in bootstrap.sh, but autoreconf doesn't know that.

I'm don't think this change is big enough to bother with a patch.


Max.



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