[GRASS5] Thought on my CVS problem

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:50:28PM +0700, Justin Hickey wrote:
> Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:26:02AM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> > > Yes, I agree that the compilation or configure output files should
> > > be removed from the CVS tree.
> > 
> > I also agree,
> > but we must have them in the tarball,
> > so there should be a target to just build them if we remove them from
> > the CVS version.
> > 
> > Not everybody has a recent autoconf or flex/bison installed and 
> > properly configured. Which means we are excluding some people from
> > using the
> > CVS directly. (I do not think it is a problem, but it should be
> > noted.)
> 
> But these files are platform dependent (especially the autoconf files).

configure should not be platform dependent.
Most free software packages coming with a ready to run configure
and lex and yacc output files.

So you can compile without proper automake/autoconf installed.
But you need this as a developer if you want to create configure.
	Bernhard

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