Re: config.h.in

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:34:13AM -0300, Jorge Arellano Cid wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 01:10:11PM +0000, Jeremy Henty wrote:
> > 
> > [email protected] wrote:
> > 
> > > ^config\. is in .hgignore, bug config.h.in is tracked. It is
> > > autogenerated, shouldn't it be removed from repo?
> > 
> > Yes, it should.
> 
>   I'm not sure (my fault ;), but in practice:
> 
>   If removing it from the repo doesn't prevent "autogen.sh",
> from building "configure"; and the "./configure; make" dance works
> as usual, it should be ok to remove.

On top of config.h.in there is a comment that says "Generated from
configure.in by autoheader".

"./autogen.sh; ./configure; make" works after removing config.h.in.

By the way, configure.in is named configure.ac now. [1] autoconf shows
a warning each time it sees configure.in.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Writing-Autoconf-Input