Comment 92 for bug 740815

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In , Shaver (shaver) wrote :

(In reply to comment #23)
> Normal practice is to only ship generated files in the foo.tar.gz, not in
> revision control. In the same way that firefox-4.0.source.tar.bz2 includes
> configure, but mozilla-central doesn't.

We used to have it in the tree when we were in CVS, and it's only the more complex merge mechanics of hg that made us turn it off. We'd like to have it back, because it obviates the need to have autoconf-2.13 installed for the vast majority of developers.