Pregenerated files: repo freeze and discourse

[Gedare Bloom]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius at rtems.org> wrote:
> It all condenses down into:
> - Make sure to have the nominal versions of the autotools in $PATH.
> - Make sure to have your Makefile.ins and configures in git.
> - After having run a toplevel ./bootstrap git diff must be empty.
>
>From where I sit this is not the case. I have updated tools (I think!)
and the git head, bootstrap -c then bootstrap then git diff gives me a
diff file containing 1751 lines. I don't even know where to start.
What is the "authoritative" versions of tools? How do I know when to
update my automake/conf? Who decides when to push changes to generated
files?

-Gedare