Re: Built-in target to delete all generated files

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Trevor Harmon wrote:
> Yes, but that rule of thumb is at odds with another rule of thumb: 
> "Never commit generated files to a source code repository." And 
> considering that "autoreconf -i" does a perfect job of regenerating 
> all of the files I listed, I'm willing to break the GCS rule.

My project uses maintainer-mode and I always check these generated 
files into the source code repository.  The end user might not be able 
to produce a working set of files based on whatever random autotools 
they have on their system.

Bob
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