From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>
Cc: Cor van Loos <C_van_Loos@excite.com>, <Insight@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: Building Insight (2)
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:37:00 -0000
Message-id: <200006300037.RAA29272@ferrule.cygnus.com>
References: <17962774.962279561504.JavaMail.imail@derby> <B581369F.1ECB%jingham@apple.com>
X-SW-Source: 2000-q2/msg00366.html

Jim> P.S. I also agree with Keith that libgui should NOT be trying to
Jim> make the tclIndex as part of the build.  It is too fragile,
Jim> particularly since the wrong version of Itclsh can cause really
Jim> bad things to happen...

One approach to this, which is both controversial and widely
practiced, is to check in the derived file and make rebuilding it
conditional upon configuring with --enable-maintainer-mode.
This is easiest if you're using automake, but it is also fairly easy
without it.

Tom