[fdo-internals] Remove Generated Files

Mateusz Loskot mateusz at loskot.net
Mon Oct 29 16:54:43 EDT 2007


Greg Boone wrote:
> Actually, I would state that it is no more work (at least initially)
> since we recommend users call build_linux.sh, which calls
> 
>       aclocal
>       libtoolize --force
>       automake --add-missing --copy
>       autoconf
>      ./configure
> 
> This generates the makefiles. Once this is done, the user is free to
> call 'make' and 'make install' directly.

Greg,

But calling these tools will *regenerate* ./configure script,
that's why I share my opinion it doesn't make much sense to keep
./configure script, especially if we like to remove small utilities it
uses, like install-sh, config.sub, etc.

Cheers
-- 
Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net


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