Re: Automake violations of the gnu coding conventions

[Benoit Sigoure]

Quoting "K. Richard Pixley" <address@hidden>:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > If someone is trying to build from source control then they have
> > assumed the role of a developer.
> No, I'm sorry, but that's not necessarily true.  A developer of foo is
> not necessarily a developer of bar.  They may be capable of becoming
> one, but that's not how most organizations prefer to allocate their
> talent.

You are right and that's exactly why developers of foo should not  
attempt to use bar from {CVS,SVN,Perforce,...}.  They should use a  
{pre-,}release tarball that has been produced by the developers of bar  
with, say, make distcheck.

If you are running into this sort of problem I think it is most likely  
due to your unconventional usage of versionned sources.

By the way, if you are stuck with a read only source tree, you can  
still cp -r it to $TMPDIR and then fix the timestamp as it has already  
been said.  And then ask the developers of bar to provide you with a  
tarball :)

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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