I’m building gnuradio from a git checkout using OE to setup the
toolchains etc. Part of the build process is similar to running
bootstrap, but with special autotools. Afterwards, git status reports
change in config.guess and config.sub. My understanding is these are
generated files and should not be in the repository.
Can we delete these from git/next, or is there some reason they are
there?
modified: config.guess
modified: config.sub
modified: usrp2/firmware/config.guess
modified: usrp2/firmware/config.sub
Philip
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:23:38AM -0800, Philip B. wrote:
modified: usrp2/firmware/config.guess
modified: usrp2/firmware/config.sub
Philip
Those files are not generated, but if they’re not there, they are
copied from the local (potentially out of date) system.
What’s in the repository are most likely more up-to-date than what’s
on your local system. You can check the date code at the top of each
file to check.
Mostly this matters when we build tarballs, since what’s in the tree
is what goes into the tarball. The reason we like the most
up-to-date, is that they support more system configurations.
You could make the problem “invisible” on your end by adding appropriate
entries to your own ~/.gitignore 
Eric