Re: cvs issues with .info files...

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 11:20:24AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: Mike Frysinger
> >Sent: 04 July 2005 11:14
> 
> > On Monday 04 July 2005 06:08 am, Ravi Ramaseshan wrote:
> >> Is there any reason why these info files are generated into the source
> >> directory ? Shouldn't they be generated into the build directory
> >> instead?
> > 
> > they are ... not everyone builds in a diff tree from the source code
> > though -mike
> 
>   They aren't: they are always generated in the source tree.  It's a quirk.

More specifically, it is an automake limitation and I have not gotten
sufficiently frustrated to fix it.

> It's handy when preparing a release tarball though, because they need to be
> there - they're generated files like the configure scripts and so need to be
> in a release so that users can build and install without having all the
> infrastructure tools that developers need.

Not really.  The release process uses configure in the source directory
so whether things go into $build or $src doesn't much matter.  In fact
this causes me a lot of headaches.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC