On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>wrote:
> On 8/18/11, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I wish there were a better solution. Perhaps some more massaging of the
> > current automake build system will allow us not to store those files in
> > the repo. That would be the ideal situation, but oddly some people want
> > to build maxima without going through configure/make, so some of these
> > files need to exist.
>
> I don't understand what the problem is. We can rename sharefiles.mk
> to sharefiles.mk.in and just copy it to sharefiles.mk at build time
> (I guess this means there needs to be a rule for that in Makefile.am).
> Then sharefiles.mk will get bundled into the tarball for the benefit of
> those who are building without automake.
>
>
I don't remember what the actual problem was anymore. I will take a look
again at this.
Ray