On 13 Sep 2002 09:38:55 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "MG" == Mikhael Goikhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> MG> Jason, Please change the building script a bit.
> 
> MG> 1) Add this line (just replace the date) at the beggining:
> 
> MG>   perl -i -pe "s/from cvs/snap-20021013/" configure.in
> 
> I don't think that will work; the next update will then either have
> conflicts or will not find anything to change.  I guess I could delete
> configure.in each time and pull it fresh from the repository.  Let's
> try that.

Yes, this is what I thought too. Then don't patch any configure.in or
configure, just set VERSIONINFO when running configure.

> MG> 2) Instead of aclocal/automake/autoreconf commands you may just
> MG> run:
> 
> MG>   utils/configure_dev.sh
> 
> Not now.  Someone could append "cd ~; rm -rf *" to that file and I'd
> lose my entire account.
> 
> MG> 3) Optionally you may add this building script to utils/, so we
> MG> may edit it from cvs in case we change versioning or something
> MG> else again.
> 
> Same problem.  Although I guess you could already do that by munging
> configure.in.  Hmmm.  Perhaps I should shut off snapshot building
> until I can get this all running under a separate user.

:-) I am preparing some hidden Makefile.am patch ASAP. :)

Regards,
Mikhael.
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