Re: [PHP4BETA] cvs: /php4 buildconf makedist

> > Simply put an automake -ac in makedist and voila. > > You want to call automake twice, once from buildconf and once from > makedist? Right. info automake should give you enough understanding of what automake does, if the automake files aren't found. > It might just be me, but considering there were exactly 5 revisions of > automake in the last five years, I think you can handle deleting the > symlinks once a year when you install a new version. Why should I delete symlinks? I'd have to find out which regular files are exactly installed by automake. I did this multiple times and it's not really funny to look at each file just to find out whether you can remove it. > I have better things to do with my time than check each release twice. If > you want to do it, go ahead. I'm in favour of one, centralized > distribution process, that doesn't have weird dependencies (you have to > configure the distribution before you can create it?). make dist doesn't > give you that, makedist does. Nice for you. -- Regards, Sascha Schumann Consultant