[PD-dev] Re: zexyconf.h conflicts

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 19, 2006, at 4:43 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> I am getting conflicts just my using your build stuff.  Could you  
>> remove zexyconf.h from CVS since its dynamically generated?   
>> Otherwise this will require manual intervention after automatic  
>> builds.
>> RCS file: /cvsroot/pure-data/externals/zexy/src/zexyconf.h,v
>> retrieving revision 1.3
>> retrieving revision 1.4
>> Merging differences between 1.3 and 1.4 into zexyconf.h
>> rcsmerge: warning: conflicts during merge
>> cvs update: conflicts found in zexy/src/zexyconf.h
>> C zexy/src/zexyconf.h
>
>
> i see. this is indeed a problem.
> the reason why zexyconf.h is checked in, is that you can also build  
> zexy with M$VC without running configure first: in this case nobody  
> will create the zexyconf.h file, which - imho - makes building  
> overcomplicated (i don't think it is an option to tell people to  
> copy zexyconf.h.in to zexyconf.h and edit to their needs).

That sounds good.  I think its far too much work to support every  
compiler under the sun.  I like gcc on all platforms.

> the issue here was, that incidentially a "generic" zexyconf.h has  
> been overwritten in the past by a generated file.
> i have to read the CVS manual, to see how to exclude checked in  
> files from being updated.
>
> another solution might be, to run "make distclean" before doing CVS  
> updates, which will remove the generated files.

That would be a workaround, rather than a fix.  Sounds likely to  
introduce more problems in the future.

.hc

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