[parted-devel] Autogenerable files included on SCM

[Otavio Salvador]

Anant Narayanan <anant at kix.in> writes:

>> I've found a bunch of files that can be autogenerated and are often
>> updated on SCM repository. This doesn't make sense in my POV since it
>> makes our life harder to hack on the code since we need to select what
>> we wish to commit every time.
>
> The m4 files are not necessarily autogenerated. And removing them
> might mean some changes in autogen.sh. I would expect a lot of support
> questions a.k.a. "parted does not compile!" if we remove those files,
> since not all end-users are familiar with how autotools works and just
> blindly follow instructions.

I did an autogen.sh call here and it has installed all needed files.

Of course, those files will be present on the tarball but not on SCM.

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