Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933510AbXBXP3c (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:29:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933512AbXBXP3b (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:29:31 -0500 Received: from tmailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.23]:48016 "EHLO tmailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933510AbXBXP3b (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:29:31 -0500 Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:26:10 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Jon Masters cc: "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" , Sergey Vlasov , Linux Kernel Mailing List , mit-devel@lists.printk.net Subject: Re: module-init-tools-3.3-pre10 available In-Reply-To: <45DF0B42.2080208@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <45DD0031.9010808@redhat.com> <20070222170732.22c1320b.vsu@altlinux.ru> <45DDAE24.6080905@redhat.com> <20070223120136.12ea11db@home.brethil> <45DF0B42.2080208@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 818 Lines: 25 On Feb 23 2007 10:41, Jon Masters wrote: > > I think it's like the configure/Makefile.in situation. These files should > technically not be in the repo either (and you removed them in your tree) but I > re-added them because people have an expectation that: > > ./configure > make > > will do something "out of the box". Out of the box perhaps if it is the .tar.bz2 archive, but the same does not always hold for CVS repos, much less SVNs [random guess on svn]. He who pulls from a developer tree mostly knows to run 'autogen.sh' or 'autoreconf -fi' beforehand. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/