Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> writes: > The main problem with this is that not all users wanting to build from > sources in the repository have the correct autotools versions. Even if > they do have the correct autotools versions, the sources may have been > hacked by an OS Autotools package maintainer to work differently.
This doesn't work for all projects, but I've had a lot of success in the past in automating the process I use to generate a tarball release (which might be as simple as make dist), and just run it daily or weekly and publish the resulting tarballs somewhere. That lets people who really want to run source repository snapshots still have a distribution-ready tree that doesn't require autotools. I intensely dislike committing autotools output to the repository. It's a matter of taste, honestly, and some people just do that, but I hate large, generated files in version control since they're often not mergable and cause all sorts of irritating issues on branching, commits from systems with slightly different tool versions, etc. -- Russ Allbery (ea...@eyrie.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
