Re: [avr-libc-dev] reconf

[E. Weddington]

Paul Schlie wrote:

>  
>
> > From: "E. Weddington" <address@hidden>
> > Paul Schlie wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > > From: Russell Shaw <address@hidden>
> > > >
> > > > One thing i forgot to mention is that projects often have a
> > > > script called bootstrap or autogen that goes thru the steps
> > > > of running aclocal, autoheader, autoconf, and automake. These
> > > > scripts can check for versions of the installed tools if
> > > > needed.
> > > >   
> > > >        
> > > Which ideally only the maintainers need ever run, to properly
> > > update the ./configure script in the archive as may be required.
> > >
> > > (hopefully)
> > >
> > >      
> > Correct.
> >
> > The only other usage is if someone wanted to build avr-libc from a CVS
> > checkout and not from the release tarball, they would run bootstrap
> > first, then the configre/make/make install.
> >    
>
> Nope, there's no reason for the current ./configure script not to be in
> the cvs archive, just as typically included in most such cvs archives.
>
>
>  
Oh, sure, you're right. We'll have to change that in the future to add 
configure to CVS.