gEDA-dev: removal of generated files from pcb cvs

[Dan McMahill]

Ben Jackson wrote:
> 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 in a generated file from a slightly outdated automake I was able to track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.

I don't particularly like raising the bar either but I guess I don't 
feel like those are much of a bar and it presents a major pain if you're 
touching any of those files and you don't have the right version.  For 
example, joe user has a checkout from cvs.  He happened to run 
autogen.sh.  Now I check in a new Makefile.in from a different version 
and he now gets cvs conflicts on the next update.

>> 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.
> 

perhaps fixing the version checks and docs will help here.  I've 
hopefully done just that for pcb.