Re: heads up RE autoconf C23 vs legacy code

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 06:02:41PM +0100, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
>> 
>> > I wonder if we should start committing the generated files to CVS.
>> > For example, I don't expect another release of scmcvs, so we should be
>> > safe to generate them now and then never touch them again.
>> 
>> That goes against the "vendored code bad" principle.   We'd also not get
>> bugfixes to autoconf.
>
> I was not talking about the ones that just come with a configure.ac
> and we have to generate everything.
>
> I meant the ones where we patch a Makefile.am or configure.ac, which
> is, I think, the bigger part.

I am not following what you mean to do.