Re: Autoconf and CVS

[Daniel Pekelharing]

On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 02:56 -0500, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 09:40 +0200, Daniel Pekelharing wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am in the process of importing my project into CVS,
> > but I am a little confused as to Autoconf, should I import all generated
> > Makefile's, Makefile.in's, configure etc. ?
> > I personally think I should leave them out of CVS, and just include
> > configure.ac and Makefile.am's.
> 
> That seems to be what most people do. It's what I do.
> 
> It does mean that CVS users must have the autotools available on their
> systems so that the generated files can be created. But maintaining
> generated files in revision control can be rather annoying.
> 
> > Forgive a newbie question, how do I completely clean all generated
> > files? - Apart from doing it manually? I tried "make distclean" but it's
> > still leaving some auto generated stuff lying around.
> 
> I don't know the answer to that. Generally it's not something you *need*
> to do; though I can see how it would be handy when you're first
> importing your project into revision control. For that purpose I've just
> manually removed the generated files.
> 
> > And one other, unrelated question: So I use automake, autoconf,
> > autoheader and aclocal. What's the correct order to run them in?
> > I've never quite figured it out.
> 
> Run autoreconf and let it figure it out. :-)

Thanks for the info!

I'll go with leaving auto generated stuff out of CVS,

And thanks for the tip about autoreconf, I never knew about it - sure
makes it a lot easier!

-- 
Daniel Pekelharing
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