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Re: Building SVN source failures: VPATH builds; Cygwin


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Building SVN source failures: VPATH builds; Cygwin
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 09:40:50 +0200

> From: Hans-Bernhard Bröker <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 23:53:12 +0100
> Cc: Texinfo <address@hidden>
> 
> I usually prefer sticking with the "no generated files in version 
> control (except for rather exotic generators)" approach.

That would require everyone who wants to build out of the repository
to have all the necessary tools of the correct versions installed,
which might not be a very user-friendly approach.

I actually don't understand why this urge to remove generated files
from the repository, since VPATH should DTRT with stale files anyway,
and asking someone who makes a Makefile.am-level change to do the
update in the source tree is not a big deal.  It sounds like we are
gratuitously making life harder for at least some users, for the
benefit of marginal use cases which have alternative solutions.



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