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

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From: Jeff Jahr <jjahr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:19:58 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:

> I was reading this document about CVS and autoconf,
> 
> http://www.levien.com/gnome/cvs-lib-howto.html
> 
> and it recommends keeping the generated files out of
> CVS (configure, Makefile.in, Makefile, etc).
> 
> Does anybody disagree with this? If not, I'll remove those
> generated files from ethereal's CVS tree. It makes little
> sense to keep them in there, since a 'make dist' creates all
> those files for the tar file that is to be distributed.

It should also improve the readablility and cut down on the size of the
cdiffs we pass around.  ;')

-jsj