A Cry For Sanity

Mark Wielaard mark at klomp.org
Fri Jul 11 01:47:59 PDT 2008


Hi Andrew,

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 11:34 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > I believe that the majority by far are people actively hammering those
> > two files in the IcedTea repository rather than the 'common builder' who
> > just wants to download and try the latest and greatest.  We have very
> > little overhead in producing a release, so producing these regularly
> > and keeping the tree free of generated autotools files seems the best
> > option.
> >
> > IcedTea is a fairly unique project.  Not many projects effectively result
> > in two files getting changed by just about each and every patch.  I think
> > this is also the cause of some VCS issues we have, but not all.
> >
> 
> [Trying again as the removed generated files are so big the patch is
> too big for the mailing list]
> 
> So shall I commit this?
> 
> 2008-07-07  Andrew John Hughes  <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org>
> 
>        * ChangeLog: Fix typos.
>        * Makefile.in,
>        * configure,
>        * aclocal.m4: Removed.

Yes please. Could you also update the INSTALL file to mention running
autoreconf?

Thanks,

Mark




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