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Should autoconf/automake automatically generated files be tracked with version control? #28

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yimjay opened this issue Aug 26, 2023 · 0 comments
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yimjay commented Aug 26, 2023

Files generated automatically via autoconf or automake are currently included in the repository and were added before gitignore was updated to exclude some of them from version control. Those files are still being tracked so that if someone clones the repo and runs autoconf, automake on their system git will keep track of changes to these files.

Should the repository:

  1. Keep all files generated up to the configure file so anyone cloning this repo can just run ./configure, make, make install and update or fix any errors as they come up
  2. Remove all automatically generated files and only keep configure.ac and Makefile.am (and those in subdirectories)
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