Re: What is minimum set of Automake work files needed for distribution on github?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, John Calcote wrote:
> Thus, the usual technique is to commit the Autotools source files required
> by your project, but to NOT commit a configure script. Anyone wanting to
> clone your repository is expected to be "developer enough" to know how to
> run "autoreconf -i" to create the configure script.

The main problem with this is that not all users wanting to build from 
sources in the repository have the correct autotools versions.  Even 
if they do have the correct autotools versions, the sources may have 
been hacked by an OS Autotools package maintainer to work differently.

Due to these problems, the configure script for my package provides 
the --enable-maintainer-mode option, and I use a method of updating 
the package version which does not require editing configure.ac 
(avoiding re-generating configure).  Whenever someone commits to the 
repository, I rebuild all of the additional generated files enabled to 
be updated via --enable-maintainer-mode.

Bob
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