From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Generated files in e2fsprogs git repo
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:02:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140701010250.GA23932@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJTo0LYeerPnHpaxAw36N7BiWH4PKUMAX=1j+Szc7J9zvB7jjw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 05:52:29PM +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
> Would anyone object to a patch set to remove all generated files
> (aclocal.m4, configure, intl/*, po/Makefile.in.in, etc) from the
> e2fsprogs git repository? They'll still exist in tarballs, but anyone
> building from git would need to run autoreconf to regenerate them -
> the plus side being that the shipped aclocal.m4 won't be forcing
> archaic macros onto users.
I don't trust autoreconf. Different versions of autoconf can end up
with different incompatible versions of autoconf macros, and I have
seen some rather disastrous failures as a result. That's why I update
autoconf under my control, and if you run autoreconf as a user, and it
breaks because the "archaic macros" work, and the "new shiny" macros
fail, that's your problem, and I will laugh at you....
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-01 1:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-30 16:52 Generated files in e2fsprogs git repo Burton, Ross
2014-07-01 1:02 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2014-07-01 9:55 ` Burton, Ross
2014-07-01 15:22 ` Theodore Ts'o
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