From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:01:34 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20110202022909.30644.qmail@science.horizon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: George Spelvin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 03 19:01:44 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pl3V1-0007AH-8p for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:01:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756673Ab1BCSBh (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2011 13:01:37 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:55016 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756418Ab1BCSBg (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2011 13:01:36 -0500 Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5574E1C0F591; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:01:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 134361C000B3; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:01:35 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.8.164]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zUBOg2qlopk8; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:01:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-126-183.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.126.183]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:01:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 18896CA2A0; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:01:34 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Are we THERE yet?? In-Reply-To: (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:16:10 -0500 (EST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.93 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nicolas Pitre writes: > This has _nothing_ about any autoconf convention. GNU autoconf requires > stupid things like having a bunch of files such as CREDITS, INSTALL, > CHANGELOG, and other whatnots even if you have nothing to put in them, > in which case they still have to be there but empty. It also dictates > the exact name your directories must have, etc. That's automake, not autoconf (and only the default automake operation). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."