Re: add generated files to .gitignore

[don fong]

Chet, thanks for the suggestion.

i still wonder what's the objection to changing .gitignore?

using a separate directory to build, while i'm working on the sources,
feels less convenient.





On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 2/25/18 2:49 PM, don fong wrote:
> > Chet, i'm not sure i understand your suggestion.
> >
> >> You don't have to build in the source directory.
> >
> > i don't see anything in the INSTALL or README files about building
> outside
> > the source dir.
> > according to INSTALL,
>
> This is a standard feature of any autoconf-generated configure script, and
> is not specific to bash. Make a directory, cd to it, run
> "bash /path/to/srcdir/configure" and configure will make sure the right
> paths end up in the generated Makefiles.
>
> --
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> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
>