On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, John Calcote wrote:
Thus, the usual technique is to commit the Autotools source files required
by your project, but to NOT commit a configure script. Anyone wanting to
clone your repository is expected to be "developer enough" to know how to
run "autoreconf -i" to create the
On 09/28/2015 08:20 PM, Robert Parker wrote:
I need to meet the requirements of 2 sets of users, the ordinary user who
is only interested `./configure; make; make install` and the power users
who want to start with `autoreconf`.
So far google search on the topic has only increased my confusio
Hi Robert,
The Autotools were created to meet a specific need - that of the open
source distribution model supported by many open source projects where,
occasionally - or perhaps nightly, the project maintainers would release a
source tarball containing a configure script and Makefile.in files. As
Thanks, that does make sense.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/28/2015 04:20 AM, Robert Parker wrote:
> > I need to meet the requirements of 2 sets of users, the ordinary user
> who
> > is only interested `./configure; make; make install` and the power users
> > who w
On 09/28/2015 04:20 AM, Robert Parker wrote:
> I need to meet the requirements of 2 sets of users, the ordinary user who
> is only interested `./configure; make; make install` and the power users
> who want to start with `autoreconf`.
>
> So far google search on the topic has only increased my co
I need to meet the requirements of 2 sets of users, the ordinary user who
is only interested `./configure; make; make install` and the power users
who want to start with `autoreconf`.
So far google search on the topic has only increased my confusion.
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