Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Managing changes to projects that use autoconf/automake with tla

[Aaron Bentley]

Parker, Ron wrote:
> I was wondering how Tom and others handled their local commits to projects
> that utilize automake and autoconf.
>
> My situation is related to using diffutils in a nested project-framework
> hierarchy.  It seems that when I "configure && make" the master project that
> diffutils' aclocal.m4, config.hin, configure and Makefile.in get modified.
> This isn't a problem, per se.  But it does result in about 13,000 lines of
> "unnecessary" diff to diffutils.  These are diffs that I assume would differ
> based upon the version of the auto tools on the machine where "configure"
> was run.  My method to this point has been to revert these specific changes
> before committing my quite minor changes to diffutils.

We use automake and autoconf.  We have all the generated files marked 
"precious", since local configuration differences aren't relevent to the 
project.  The files from which other files are generated (e.g. 
Makefile.am) *are* considered source.

Remember that someone whose configuration differed from yours would be 
most displeased if you checked in changes that altered their configuration.

HTH,

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
Panometrics, Inc.