Hi Frank, On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 12:58:46PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > > > But I think the root cause is more the continued reliance > > > on "make dist", made necessary by the exclusion of generated autoconf* > > > materiel in the source tree. > > > > I really don't think putting generated file into git is a good idea. > > You get all those issues that gcc, binutils and gdb have where you need > > all this extra CI just to make sure people use the "correct" tools to > > regenerate the files. > > That need always seemed overstated. The tools are "correct" if they > work (to configure/build elfutils on the platforms & configurations of > interest), even if they are not the freshest upstream or a particular > distro version. If some developer manages to push in an > unsatisfactory version, any other developer (or a bot) can regen and > fix it. It seems to me a non-problem.
Having each committer push generated files with their own variant of the tools causes generates updates that are hard to sanity check by others. Cheers, Mark
