Re: What to check into repository?

[Jason Curl]

Hongliang Wang wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> My company decides to make part of our software source code open-sourced.
> For this part, we will use automake & autoconf tools to generate the 
> installation package (.tar.gz).
>
> However, the current problem is that we cannot decide what to check into our 
> own software repository. The .c and .h files will  definitely be needed to 
> check in, but what about the Makefile.am configure.ac, and even the executable 
> files like missing, compile, autogen.sh, aclocal.m4, autom4te.cache/ ?
>
> Would anybody give me some suggestions?
>   
Any "source" is usually stored in the repository, configure.ac, 
Makefile.am constitutes as source. Derived objects as part of a build 
are generally not.

The generated files, such as Makefile.in, configure, may or may not be. 
Most projects tend to at least keep configure, but other projects have a 
"bootstrap" script that generates these for you. When you do a "make 
dist", all necessary files are part of the tar.gz. Check that it works 
with "make distcheck" before you release.

It depends on the type of source configuration tool you're using as 
well. Personally, I include the "configure" and "Makefile.in" so that 
users checking the repository out (as guest) do not need to have the 
autoconf tools available.

Regards,
Jason.