Bob Proulx wrote:
>Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
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>>Add a run-this-on-checkout script and proper rules to the makefiles to run
>>the autotools sequence if the autotools files are not yet available.
>>
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>Shouldn't 'autoreconf' be the right answer to regenerate all of the
>autotools files after a clean checkout? Isn't that the tool designed
>to do the right thing to bootstrap the project?
>
>Bob
>
>
You're absolutely right, 'autoreconf' does the job. But IMHO, I think that
autotools should not generate anything in the source directory. Keep only a
generic configure in the source that will generate in a object directory all
the autotools files would be more appropriate, and there will be a clean
separation between generated and source files (and avoid any source tree
"pollution").
But I can live with this solution provided that I known all the files
generated by the autotools in each directory to put the coirrect subversion
'ignore' property.
Eric
Received on Thu Dec 2 18:34:06 2004