Re: gEDA-dev: What should be included in the dist file?

[al davis <ad106@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> > On 8/16/06, al davis <ad106@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> What about generated "source" files?
> >> These are files in C or whatever, that look like source, but are
> >> actually generated.  My experience is that to include them tricks
> >> people into thinking they are source, causing more problems, but may
> >> allow them to build when a translation program (m4, awk,
> >> gnucap-modelgen, autoconf) is not available.
> > 
> > 
> John Luciani wrote:
> > Requiring basic tools like m4, awk, etc. does not seem
> > like an unreasonably requirement.
> 
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 22:01, Dan McMahill wrote:
> I agree but I don't put autoconf in the "basic tools" category.  But one 
> should never need that unless you're editing configure.ac but if you're 
> doing that then I no longer feel bad about requiring it.  Normal end 
> users should not need it though so I certainly believe generated 
> 'configure' goes in the distfile.

The official GNU list of "basic tools" is:
     cat cmp cp diff echo egrep expr false grep install-info
     ln ls mkdir mv pwd rm rmdir sed sleep sort tar test touch true
See:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Utilities-in-Makefiles.html



_______________________________________________
geda-dev mailing list
geda-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev