Today, Jean-Guillaume Paradis (LMC) wrote: >You see, we use CVS for our project ( >http://sourceforge.net/projects/disec if you are interested ;) ). What >we do is to include the configure.ac and Makefile.am files in our CVS >tree, since this isn't a "distribution", but the necessary things for >developpers who want to change the Makefile.am files to include new >programs etc etc. I think this is the cause of the problem, and this >would't happen if we would only include the Makefile.in for example. > >So if I checkout (download) the entire project, a ./configure -> make >will run aclocal, automake again. I tried running autoconf, automake, >configure, (putting everything up to date) and then commiting the >changes to the CVS repository, but another checkout did the same >problem.
Aaaaaah it's all becoming clear. If you use `cvs checkout', the timestamps will be updated. You want to use `cvs update' for your day-to-day updating of your source tree... This should solve it - just get everyone else on your project to use update too or it won't help. Regards, Philip Willoughby Systems Programmer, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK -- echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] | tr "bizndfohces" "pwgd9ociaku" Why reinvent the wheel? . . . . . . . . . Because we can make it rounder...
