Joey Hess wrote: > - I prefer to keep my diffs as small as possible. I expect users and > upstream authors to read these diffs, and if they're huge the > important changes will be lost in the noise. I don't want to give > upstream authors the impression that I am forking or making huge > changes to their packages. I see 140k compressed diffs if autotools > are run in the tree once, vs 8k diffs if they're run every build > time and cleaned up after. > > - This entirely avoids the problems of lurking rules in generated Makefiles > that decide to wake up on m68k and unexpectedly run the autotools > (which are not present, or fail) because of stupid timestamp issues. > Yes, I know about AM_MAINTAINER_MODE, but see above points about diffs > and autogenerated files. I forgot to mention in here that it also avoids entirely the problems of keeping config.sub and config.guess up-to-date. -- see shy jo
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