re: Built-time generated files vs. dependency

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

   On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:41:32PM +0900, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
   > There're files which are generated on-the-fly during build.  Most typically
   > bin/sh/Makefile generates many those files.
   ...
   > If no one strongly objects, I'd want to commit those generated files.  Thus
   > we can build complete dependency trees.  One benefit coming to mind first 
is
   > crunch binaries.  We'll be able to re-build it without calling sub-make
   > repeatedly.
   
   No ... we should really be removing all the generated files from
   CVS, not adding more.


not *all* but the majority i totally agree with.  stuff like pcidevs
being checked in makes for nice grep -r results.


.mrg.