On 22/05/06, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote:
Ben Fowler wrote:
On 22/05/06, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote:
Bryce Harrington wrote:
This is a critical step for being able to start doing pre-releases during the bugfix phase, so any help on getting make distcheck to pass will be very important.
[ snip ] This is a good point. When I saw that a change to configure.ac had been made, I ran ./autogen.sh to create an up-to-date configure.in
Yeah, I go a bit overboard with my autopackage making script. I run autogen.sh and configure and make clean every time.
If it helps, I think that for making a 'deliverable' or for packaging that is a very good idea, verging on mandatory, because you are removing one variable (the dependency tracking software) and potentially making life simpler for anybody downstream who wishes to build from sources by starting from a known 'zero' state.
Personally, I would use this as a stepping stone to a 'one step build' - a build operation that was fully automated, in which case that fact that parts were strictly unnecessary would not matter, as it would be being done without human attention.
Ben