While the files generated by autoconf should be shipped in the release tarballs, they really shouldn't be present in Git. Different versions of autoconf on different operating systems will change these files, creating unnecessary churn. Much in the way that object files are not included in the source repository, configure and its friends shouldn't, either.
Update .gitignore to reflect this change.
This requires that developers run autoreconf -i themselves to generate the build system.
While the files generated by
autoconf
should be shipped in the release tarballs, they really shouldn't be present in Git. Different versions ofautoconf
on different operating systems will change these files, creating unnecessary churn. Much in the way that object files are not included in the source repository,configure
and its friends shouldn't, either.Update
.gitignore
to reflect this change.This requires that developers run
autoreconf -i
themselves to generate the build system.