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On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 14:45, Miles Bader wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@fencepost.gnu.org> writes:
> > Since config.in is now a derived file, we should checkin it into CVS
> > every time the configury changes (like it did now).  Otherwise, you
> > get annoyed by "cvs up".
> 
> Of course, we _should_ do the right thing and remove it from CVS (along
> with `configure' for that matter)....

Agreed.  I don't see why we couldn't use an "autogen.sh" script like a
number of other free software projects do.  If there aren't any
objections to this idea, I'll be happy to do it.