From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37266 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stainless Steel Rat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: ./configure Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:32:51 -0400 Organization: The Happy Fun Ball Brigade Message-ID: <01Jul30.103401edt.115238@gateway.intersys.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172711 12985 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:58:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:58:31 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 1875 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2001 14:33:42 -0000 Original-Received: from gateway.intersys.com (HELO intersys.com) (198.133.74.253) by gnus.org with SMTP; 30 Jul 2001 14:33:42 -0000 Original-Received: by gateway.intersys.com id <115238>; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:34:01 -0400 Original-To: "(ding)" X-Attribution: Rat In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Original-Lines: 21 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37266 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37266 * Didier Verna on Mon, 30 Jul 2001 | Well, you actually *want* to keep configure in CVS because it is no | different from people to people, and it's somewhat insane to make | thousands of people regenerate the *same* file. It also has the advantage | that CVS simple users (not developers) don't have to know autoconf and | friends to build gnus. "CVS versions" and "simple user" do not go together. If you are using something out of a CVS tree then you are either a) an advanced user, b) a developer, or c) a tester, all three of which should have at least a basic understanding of how automake work. If you are none of the above then you probably should not be using anything out of a CVS tree. Besides "./autogen.sh" is not that difficult, and it runs configure for you automatically. That is how most of the projects that I use out of CVS trees handle things. The only one I don't is Mozilla, which has its own config mechanism. -- Rat \ If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ away immediately. Seek shelter and cover PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ head.