On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 06:09 +1200, chris packham wrote:
INSTALL is generated by the build process. If the build host has a different version of autotools then the contents of INSTALL can change which in turn causes problems for developers working from the git repository.
This patch removes the INSTALL file and adds it to .gitignore.
So, in your case autotools generates an INSTALL file? That's funny, this is not the same as the autotools generated one (in fact it is a bit outdated, but I wrote that to document how to install syslog-ng). For me automake doesn't generate this file. Why does it for you? autogen.sh contains: aclocal sed -i -e 's/PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG(\[0\.16\])/PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG([0.14])/g' aclocal.m4 autoheader automake --foreign --add-missing autoconf as I understand automake will only be adding the INSTALL file if it doesn't exist. Are you using -f for automake? -- Bazsi