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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:02:50 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@...el.com> Cc: linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Generated files in e2fsprogs git repo On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 05:52:29PM +0100, Burton, Ross wrote: > > Would anyone object to a patch set to remove all generated files > (aclocal.m4, configure, intl/*, po/Makefile.in.in, etc) from the > e2fsprogs git repository? They'll still exist in tarballs, but anyone > building from git would need to run autoreconf to regenerate them - > the plus side being that the shipped aclocal.m4 won't be forcing > archaic macros onto users. I don't trust autoreconf. Different versions of autoconf can end up with different incompatible versions of autoconf macros, and I have seen some rather disastrous failures as a result. That's why I update autoconf under my control, and if you run autoreconf as a user, and it breaks because the "archaic macros" work, and the "new shiny" macros fail, that's your problem, and I will laugh at you.... - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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