Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>An alternative possibility is to stop keeping configure in the CVS
>repository, but that would mean expecting everyone who uses the CVS
>sources to have autoconf installed ... I suspect that's a bad idea.
I don't see why that's a bad idea. That's exactly what the Gnome project
does, and it works for them. I would submit that anyone who can't be bothered
to take 10 minutes to install autoconf has no business mucking around with
a development tree anyway.
-Michael Robinson