Re: Autoconf 2.50
- To: "Steve M. Robbins" <steven.robbins@videotron.ca>
- Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Autoconf 2.50
- From: Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:48:25 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20010606214825.B7374@imacs.polytechnique.fr>
- In-reply-to: <20010524114330.C995@nyongwa.montreal.qc.ca>; from steven.robbins@videotron.ca on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:43:30AM -0400
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On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:43:30AM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
[...]
> You'll not notice the problem until there is more than one person
> using the CVS repository.
>
> What happens is that two people start using different versions of,
> say, autoconf. Each version will generate a correct, but slightly
> different, configure script for the same configure.in file.
>
> Person A commits. Person B's next update tries to patch the configure
> script, resulting in an unholy mess.
>
> Been there, suffered through that.
>
> Bottom line: CVS is for human-generated files ONLY.
Interesting, i'll tell Autoconf and Automake developers they are wrong
and should better not include those generated files in their CVS trees.
Denis
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