On Jan 24, 2008 2:59 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> I've been keeping the files kept by make maintainer-clean but that > >> keeps the configure script, for example, which is machine dependent (I > >> think) , so I guess I need something stricter? > > > > No, configure is not machine-dependent. > > Configure is not machine-dependent but some developers may claim it to > be so if not all developers on a project are using the same autotools > versions. This can result in large configure script patches being > submitted to the versioning system based on otherwise tiny changes. > Due to this, many projects do not check the configure script into > their versioning system. The Makefile.in files have a similar issue. >
That's exactly what happens to me. :-| > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > > > -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm PhD Student @ ECS University of Southampton, UK
