Re: A couple of core cleanups

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Philip S Tellis wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Meredydd wrote:
> 
> > > will make our lives a lot easier... eb-lite$ svn status
> > > !      core/libltdl/config.h.in
> > > !      core/libltdl/configure.in
> > > !      core/libltdl/stamp-h.in
> > > !      core/stamp-h.in
> > > !      core/config.h.in
> > Feel free, blow them away.
> 
> um, config.h.in and configure.in need to be in svn.  We don't generate 
> them on a regular basis, in fact, we shouldn't.  stamp-h.in is what 
> tells make whether to regenerate config.h or not (it's a timestamp of 
> the last time it was generated).

Generally it's a bad idea to save any generated files into source control,
because when they ARE re-generated for some reason, it causes a conflict with
the source control system. As long as the files used to generate them aren't
changed by svn, it shouldn't be necessary to regenerate them anyways.
If we ARE going to save them, we should save ALL of them, including at least
configure, so that ./gen would be run by the person checking things in, not
when things are checked out.

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