[Freeciv-Dev] Re: having to rerun auto* (was: Compiling latest CVS)

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 02:57:01PM -0500, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> Raimar Falke wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:44:38AM +0200, Reinier Post wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:33:20AM +0200, Daniel Sjölie wrote:
> > > > On 2001-10-26 10:28:42, Pieter J. Kersten wrote:
> > > > > Hello all,
> > > > >
> > > > > It seems that after the latest city dialog patch the CVS code no 
> > > > > longer
> > > > > compiles cleanly. It bails out with:
> > > >
> > > > Run "automake; autoconf; ./configure" (or similar)
> > > >
> > > > I suppose this will be done and the resulting changes commited to cvs
> > > > soon...
> > 
> > As said before my automake/autoconf changes to much in the files. So
> > I depend on other person to do this.
> > 
> > > Would it be possible to do this automatically?
> > 
> > I had the remove the Makefile.in changes by hand!
> > 
> > > Either before code is checked in, or in the make process?
> 
> It is possible to do this "automatically":
> 
> - Remove all Makefile.in files and configure.  Add these to .cvsignore.
> 
> - Create an "autogen.sh" file that runs automake+autoconf+configure. 
> This then gets run in place of configure.
> 
> The advantage here is that CVS is cleaner (making cvs diffs easier when
> you change file structure) and automake/autoconf updates happen
> automatically (you have to run configure anyway to get new Makefiles). 

> The only disadvantage I know of is that you'll have to have automake and
> autoconf installed to be able to compile CVS freeciv

Thats the problem.

> (a "make dist"
> builds the extra files, so it's not a concern there).  In projects where
> I've used this system, I have much preferred it.

> The other option as I see it is just to run automake/autoconf
> willy-nilly and accept all the spurious changes.  These files aren't an
> important part of the cvs tree anyway, so it shouldn't really be a
> problem.

Possible.

        Raimar

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