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 <legendstar@xxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
