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Re: a2ps download site

David_Hudson at capgroup dot com wrote:
> Hi Igor,
>
> Where are you seeing an 800K patch? My patch basically includes a just the
> setup.hint and README files and is about 5K.
>
> I use Autoconf 2.13 and it runs fine. However, the configure file it
> generates does not run properly.
>
> I am curious why I should not include the original configure file. The
> Cygwin Package Contributor's Guide says I should include it. Also, every
> cygwin src package I have downloaded (including cygwin itself) contains a
> configure file.

And so should this one.

Status quo seems to be that your patch should include generated files if you
regenerated them.

If you are feeling kind, split the patch into 2 files, generated files and
non-generated files.


Max.
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