>>>> "Jerry" == Jerry James
<james(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Jerry> Is there some way I can reduce the size of the diff against
Jerry> configure?
Don't bother with diffs against configure. Just be sure to generate a
new configure and commit it along with configure.in.
Jerry> (In fact, why is configure even in CVS, since it is
Jerry> generated from configure.in?)
A lot of non-GNU systems don't have autoconf. ISTR that historically
we had a lot of problems with version skew, too. Today we could
probably dispense with it.
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