Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] autoconf and CVS

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 22:24:38 -0700
> Does anybody disagree with this?

It sounds reasonable to me - if I do a "cvs update", and changes to
those files have been checked in, it seems that, for example,
"Makefile.in" is checked out before files it depends on, so a "make"
tries to rebuild "Makefile.in", which fails because it's usually not
writable, and I have to change its mod time to let the "make" finish. 
Leaving those files in CVS also means that if you change, say,
"Makefile.am", you have to check in the modified "Makefile.in" - and
there's no guarantee that I have the same "automake" that the person who
last checked in a change does, so the resulting "Makefile.in" may differ
in ways that have nothing to do with changes to the files on which it
depends.