Re: gEDA-dev: removal of generated files from pcb cvs

[Ben Jackson <ben-at-NOSPAMben_dot_com>]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:15:20PM -0500, Dan McMahill wrote:
> 
> Unless someone can really convince me otherwise I'd like to remove all 
> the generated Makefile.in's, configure, aclocal.m4, config.h.in and 
> other files from pcb's cvs.

I don't like raising the bar for CVS users.  Also, last time DJ checked
in a generated file from a slightly outdated automake I was able to track
down the build problem quickly by looking at the diff to see that he'd
gone back a rev and exactly what effect that had had.

> that there are lots of spurious diffs for developers when slightly 
> different automake versions are used.

This will just push the problem to many spurious build problem reports
when people have to run autogen themselves.  The first time I built gaf
from the repository it carefully vetted my auto* versions and then
proceeded to crap all over itself because the version checks were way out
of date and the input actually required much newer tools.

-- 
Ben Jackson AD7GD
<ben@ben.com>
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