> That not an optimal option, as it's illogical to store those files in the svn.
Well don't store them in svn - use a bootstrap script to make them before running the autotools. Here is the bit from my ./bootstrap that does the magic: get_svk_svn_directory () { # Return the SVN repository directory for a SVK checkout directory. depot_directory=$1 svk depotmap --list | grep "^/" | while read depot_map; do depot_name=$(echo $depot_map | awk "{print \$1}") repository_directory=$(echo $depot_map | awk "{print \$2}") if echo $depot_directory | grep "^"$depot_name > /dev/null; then echo $depot_directory | \ sed "s|"$depot_name"|file://"$repository_directory"/|" fi done } get_svn_directory () { # Return the SVN directory for a directory. dirname=$1 svn_directory="" if test -n "$SVN_EXECTUABLE" \ -a -n "$($SVN_EXECTUABLE info $dirname 2> /dev/null)"; then svn_directory="." else if test -n "$SVK_EXECTUABLE" \ -a -n "$($SVK_EXECTUABLE info $dirname 2> /dev/null)"; then depot_directory=$(svk info $dirname | \ grep "Depot Path" | awk "{print \$3}") svn_directory=$(get_svk_svn_directory $depot_directory) fi fi > /dev/null echo $svn_directory } generate_svn_changelog () { # Generate the ChangLog file using the Subversion repository. dirname=$1 echo "Generating \`"$CHANGELOG_FILE"'" if test -z "$SVN_EXECTUABLE" -a -z "$SVK_EXECTUABLE"; then echo "Warning: Unable to find the svn or svk commands." fi svn_directory=$(get_svn_directory $dirname) if test -z "$svn_directory"; then echo "Warning: Unable to determine repository information." else if test -z "$SVN2CL_EXECTUABLE"; then echo "Warning: Unable to find the svn2cl command." fi fi if test -n "$svn_directory" -a -n "$SVN2CL_EXECTUABLE"; then echo $SVN2CL_EXECTUABLE --authors=$AUTHORS_FILE $svn_directory else echo "Warning: Unable to generate the \`"$CHANGELOG_FILE"' file." touch $CHANGELOG_FILE fi } -- "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman