From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: Generated files in e2fsprogs git repo Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:02:50 -0400 Message-ID: <20140701010250.GA23932@thunk.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4 To: "Burton, Ross" Return-path: Received: from imap.thunk.org ([74.207.234.97]:38050 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751237AbaGABCy (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:02:54 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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