On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Mike, > > * Mike Frysinger wrote on Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:44:12PM CET: > > On Thursday 28 September 2006, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > i normally use automake-1.9.6 but i just tried out 1.9b and it appears > > > to have the same problem > > > > automake-1.10 exhibits the problem as well ... finally spent some time > > digging at it for fun > > > > > $ svn st INSTALL > > > $ automake-1.9b -a -c > > > $ svn st INSTALL > > > $ automake-1.9b -a -f > > > $ svn st INSTALL > > That doesn't happen for me. After `-a -f', the file is replaced with > the symlink pointing to the installed INSTALL file. > > With --foreign, however, that doesn't happen. Neither with -a -f, nor > with -a -c -f. > > > > $ automake-1.9b -a -c -f > > > $ svn st INSTALL > > > M INSTALL > > > $ svn diff INSTALL > > > ... > > > -HOMEPAGE: http://freestdf.sourceforge.net/liblzw.php > > > -AUTHOR: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > +Installation Instructions > > > +************************* > > > ... > > While I understand that you don't want this change to happen, I'm not > sure what would be the desirable or intended semantics. After all, `-a > -f' replaces all files except COPYING. If we change semantics, at least > the new ones should be documented, I think.
let me expand on the situation a bit more. ive been converting my projects from running each autotool individually to using autoreconf. this means i would generally run the command: autoreconf -f -i this in turn implies: automake -a -c -f the documentation for autoreconf says that --force is used to force a remake of all files ... and the documentation seems to imply this is a good thing as it makes sure that files will be pulled in from the latest autotools. do i want to force updating of "auxiliary tools" ? certainly. do i want to replace files that as a package maintainer are supposed to be customized per-package ? not at all ... hope this helps bring a bigger perspective to the issue rather than narrowing on automake "-a -c -f" behavior ... -mike
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