Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: [ about deleting files in a patch for a project in cvs ] >> You can't. > > Well, turns out you kind of can... Using "patch -E" on the receiving > end... But it's easier to just ask the responsible party to remove > the files.
And you still have to ask them to do "cvs remove". >> One thing to note: I don't know whether Igor is still using automake >> 1.7.1, or if he trimmed the patch to only contain the relevant >> parts, having made it with Cygwin's current automake 1.7.2. > > Yep, good catch: > > $ cygcheck -sv | grep automake > automake 1.7.1-1 > automake-devel 1.7.1-1 > automake-stable 1.4p5-5 > > Time to upgrade? > >> What is policy for setup? Should we regenerate Makefile.in (and >> aclocal.m4, and any other relevent files) with the current Cygwin >> release of automake, since we are changing it at all, or would you >> prefer to keep it at the version currently used? > > Oh, and to reply to your follow-up message, there is already a > bootstrap.sh script in the main setup directory which does exactly the > right thing... I hadn't noticed that. I propose removing the generated files from cvs. Max.