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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: configure{.in,} question
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:15:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1PAJ9q-0002J6-Ol@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sa3tykahd5g.fsf@cigue.easter-eggs.fr> (message from Julien Danjou on Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:47:39 +0200)

> From: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:47:39 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Sun, Oct 24 2010, Glenn Morris wrote:
> 
> > I have wondered whether configure even needs to be in the repository.
> 
> Me too. Almost all project I know using which are using autoconf do not
> store the configure file for obvious reasons you cited.
> I really think it's bad practice to store that in the repository.

But doing so makes sure everybody can run the configure script, even
if the version of Autoconf installed on the user's machine has some
bug that affects Emacs.

> It's like you were storing .o files. :)

Not like that at all.  Not every generated file should be omitted.  We
have other generated files in the repository, take a look at
admin/charsets and admin/unidata.  There's nothing wrong with that,
really.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-25  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-24 17:31 configure{.in,} question Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-24 19:38 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-24 19:56   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-24 20:07     ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-25  0:57       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-25  8:38         ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-25 14:43           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-25 14:58             ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-25 15:41               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-25  8:47       ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-25  9:00         ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-25  9:15         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-10-25 16:06           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-25 18:04             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-25 18:37               ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-25 19:59                 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-25 19:34               ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-25 16:43           ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-25 19:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-25 19:13   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-25 19:16     ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-25 20:08       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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