[GRASS-dev] Re: What is a binary executable doing in CVS?

[Benjamin Ducke]

Oops, that's a leftover from pre-CVS development of GEM.
Just delete it if you want.
Binary make versions were planned for deploying pre-compiled extension
modules on systems that don't have C development tools installed.

Benjamin


Glynn Clements wrote:
> Why are we including what appears to be a MacOSX binary for GNU make
> in CVS (gem/skeleton/macosx/bin/make)? We wouldn't normally store
> binary executables in CVS.
> 
> Apart from anything else, this obligates us to either host the source
> code for that version of make, or offer to provide the source code
> upon request for three years from the time that the binary is no
> longer available via CVS. Do we even know which version of the source
> code we need to supply?
> 

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