Re: autogen.sh question

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

Daniel Brockman <address@hidden> writes:

> Why did you wait before checking in `configure'?

superstition from old experience w/ (flaky) cvs over nfs problems
combined w/ automake-influenced (thus, irrelevant in this context)
methodology -- all this from other projects, not emacs.  the idea
is to ensure timestamps of freshly checked out files to be in order
of configure.in older than configure.

(my confusion runs deep, but the practice is (apparently) harmless.)

thi