Re: Building from CVS

[Reuben Thomas]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Karl Berry wrote:

>    (I can't see that the config.* files are ever modified either.)
>
> grep, like all GNU packages, should use the latest released config.*
> files whenever a new distribution is made.  Ditto texinfo.tex.

Fair point.

> Sorry, I can't exhume it now.  This was years ago, and no particularly
> useful conclusion was reached anyway (that I recall).

That's a pity. This sort of hacking around bugs really needs to be sorted 
out. My solution would be to stick with whatever files are shipped with 
the autotools, but I can see how that's not great for official GNU packages. 
Since I'm in the process of overseeing the contribution of a new program to 
GNU, this will soon become an issue for me, so I'm glad to have been made 
aware of it.

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