Re: [Gcl-devel] Removing the info files from the distro

[Tim Pierce]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:29:42PM -0800, C Y wrote:
> 
> --- Camm Maguire <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Greetings!  Would anyone have an objection to removing the .info
> > files
> > from the tree?  These are generated at build time anyway if the user
> > has makeinfo installed, which to my knowledge is available on all our
> > target systems.
> > 
> > Take care,
> > 
> > -- 
> > Camm Maguire                                                address@hidden
> 
> I wouldn't.

The .info files should probably be removed from the CVS source tree,
but regenerated when the source code is packaged for distribution.  Same
for `configure' files and other things that are automatically generated
during the build process.  Other software projects I've worked on that
use Texinfo and autoconf do the same thing.

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