Re: A couple of core cleanups

Philip S Tellis <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Mar 2004 01:35:04 +0530 (IST)
Newsgroups gmane.network.everybuddy.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sometime on Mar 8, A. Craig West assembled some asciibets to say:

> 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

configure.{in,ac} are generated once - by autoscan - before the project 
is committed to svn (ideally).
config.h.in is generated if autoheader is run and thinks that it needs 
changing (AC_DEFINEs changed in configure.ac).

configure.ac should always be in
config.h.in may or may not, but I've found it better to keep it in.
stamp-h.in really doesn't make a diff - it's an empty file anyway and 
cannot change.

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