INSTALL in git

Gaetan Nadon memsize at videotron.ca
Wed Oct 21 11:19:16 PDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 13:36 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:23:55PM -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> > I noticed an INSTALL file in xlsclients and libXvMC today, and it
> > was quite annoying to work around since 'autoreconf -fvi' replaces
> > it and git wants to commit it.  Should these files even be in git?
> > Can I nuke them for the betterment of humanity and since they get
> > created by autoreconf anyways?
> 
> See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24206
> 

As an interim measure, replace AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([dist-bzip2]) with
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2]). This will prevent the generation
of the INSTALL file. It is also part of the 24206 solution. 


> Cheers,
>   Peter
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