IMO, for normal daily builds, configure and m4 should *not* be
included - you need to run autogen.sh to create these.

Versioned releases should be built with "make dist" or equivalent, and
should contain configure, m4, Makefile.in, etc.



- At least, that is the way it is organised for LiVES, and I've never
had any complaints regarding this :D


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On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Dan Dennedy <dan@???> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:
>>
>> re all,
>>
>> On Fri, 11 Jan 2013, Dan Dennedy wrote:
>>> Can you try again, please? I noticed that some autotool helper scripts
>>> were not included in git that are normally included with a tarball. In
>>> particular, it looks like ltmain.sh is needed to overcome this libtool
>>> version problerm. I checked in 4 files that 'autoreconf ---force
>>> --install' reported as installed but that were in .gitignore. :-(
>>
>> they are not supposed to be versioned with the code: they change as
>> autoconf / automake / libtool version changes, so they should be always
>> autogenerated. to call autoreconf -i is the routine with fresh
>> repository code, that's why they are in .gitignore
>
> By that reasoning, then configure and m4/* should not be in there
> either. I think when someone asked about this earlier you said you
> wanted to let people checkout and run configure without having to
> generate it. So, which is it? It has to be all-or-nothing and not
> halfway as it has been. If you are going to support configure without
> having to run autoreconf, then the configure helpers need to be there
> to address the problem that was reported. If you are going to require
> autoreconf, then configure will be overwritten and there is no reason
> to have it checked in. As the project leader, you can make this
> decision, but then I also expect you to make a new release very soon.
>
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