From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37247 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Didier Verna Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: ./configure Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:19:48 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172696 12886 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:58:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:58:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 5024 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2001 08:18:39 -0000 Original-Received: from hermes.epita.fr (163.5.255.10) by gnus.org with SMTP; 30 Jul 2001 08:18:39 -0000 Original-Received: from goa.lrde.epita.fr (mail@goa.lrde.epita.fr [10.223.13.2]) by hermes.epita.fr id f6UAGtR17377 Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:16:58 GMT Original-Received: from uzeb.lrde.epita.fr ([10.223.13.53] ident=mail) by goa.lrde.epita.fr with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15R8Hq-0004by-00; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:20:26 +0200 Original-Received: from didier by uzeb.lrde.epita.fr with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15R8HF-0002kt-00; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:19:49 +0200 Original-To: "David Z. Maze" X-Attribution: drv X-Url: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier X-Web: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier X-Home-Page: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier In-Reply-To: ("David Z. Maze"'s message of "Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:09:16 -0400") X-Face: |j}\)O|k##MrRz#VK$Jy=0r=3Qc,,a/Tr6*JQbE73dy17]2YcmW$9Z&H21e}#~#pgc>dn(is5Bv1l!{1re+Q9suKIOUmOqZs2>QMxHlR;;}kaGYA@HR3D C6 X-Face: 6o|eiKqaHN.ANh8HXDzntcWUOCg\]RsOd.ctvm~*y}Y^R&*a+Co,\s#=HWsw3x$b_n2kJ#g (7u?J^@^xP)f,jUF|0Z'J:|G/bMA5O12*b,7`-Q`=pKsCRIpso07.Y>YB2H{7`?u&yh;C_ZtLHfj wrote: > Mattias Ahnberg writes: >Ahn> I just[1] downloaded gnus via CVS, got all files nicely enough and >Ahn> started looking around a little. What struck me strange is that I >Ahn> didn't get a "configure" file with it, something changed recently >Ahn> that I missed, or is something wrong? >=20 > That's pretty typical for stuff in CVS; you don't actually want to > store the configure script proper, because it's generated from > configure.in and depends on basically nothing beyond that file and the=20 > version of autoconf you're using. You can generate configure from > configure.in by running 'autoconf'. 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 gnu= s. "What goes in a distro goes to CVS" -- I can't remember who said that :-) --=20 Didier Verna, didier@lrde.epita.fr, http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier EPITA / LRDE, 14-16 rue Voltaire Tel.+33 (1) 53 14 59 47 94276 Le Kremlin-Bic=EAtre, France Fax.+33 (1) 44 08 01 99 didier@xemac= s.org