[Xfce4-commits] CVS: xfce4/xfdesktop/src .cvsignore,NONE,1.1

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Thu Mar 25 20:26:17 CET 2004


Simon Huggins wrote:
>>Actually, I've seen this with D-BUS, GNU emacs and some other projects who 
>>don't put generated files in CVS, and it has both advantages and 
>>disadvantages. It would make developers life easier to some degree. But on 
>>the other side I know some Xfce CVS users that don't have the required 
>>autotools installed (most notably debian users, where the provided 
>>autotools packages have some problems, dunno exactly).
> 
> Er, there aren't any problems regenerating these as long as you have all
> the m4 and I've not heard of any problems with the autotools packages.
> Certainly when I prepared the 4.0.3 packages for Debian and had to
> update all the auto generated files with a more recent libtool to get it
> working on arm it worked fine once you gave me the depends.m4 from CVS
> with XFCE_MCS_PLUGINS in it.

Thats good to hear. As said, I dunno what was the exact problem. My friends 
just told me, that they had problems running autogen.sh and therefore choose 
to run configure.

> Simon.

Benedikt

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