Re: Automake wants your INSTALL file

[Jim Meyering]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> Autoconf git does not store the INSTALL file in git any more.  This
> breaks Automake's fetch rule.
>
> Can somebody suggest something nicer than manual copying out of a
> checked-out tree?  Alternatively, may I put INSTALL back in git?
>
> FWIW, this is the command I thought of:
> wget 
> 'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f='INSTALL
>  -O INSTALL

Hi Ralf,

One possibility: set up a cron job on savannah that periodically
fetches the latest autoconf sources, builds, and then commits the
generated INSTALL into a new project containing just this sort
of auto-generated file.

For just one file, it's not worth it.  But there are others, e.g.,
find's regexprops.texi.

Jim