Re: [XBoard-devel] autogen.sh

[Ali Polatel]

Arun Persaud yazmış:
> Hi
> 
> got a few emails complaining about having to run autogen.sh to create the 
> ./configure script.
> 
> Just read a bit about it and running "autoreconf -i --force" would install 
> all the missing files that autogen.sh creates and we could get rid of 
> autogen.sh and instead add these files into version control:
> 
<snip>
> I have to say that I'm not that familiar with the autotools and am wondering 
> if for example aclocal.m4 is something that should be generated on the local 
> computer or can we distribute one that has been created on my computer... 
> same with the other files... 

Taking these files into version control doesn't make sense. Just use
make dist to create the tarball and all required files will be archived
in the tarball. I assume you used git archive instead.

> cheers
>         ARUN

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Regards,
Ali Polatel

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