On Wednesday, March 14, 2007 @ 9:33p, Bob Proulx wrote: > The 'make maintainer-clean' automake generated target will almost do > what you want. You could add the additional files to the variable > MAINTAINERCLEANFILES and then everything would be cleaned up. Right, but then I need a Makefile (which I might not have if I've run autoreconf -fvi, but haven't configured anywhere), and I need to add some special logic to the Makefile which I bet duplicates info that autoreconf already knows, and gets complicated if I add things like AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(build-aux) to my configure.ac > > Is there another way to make files/directories like: > > > > aclocal.m4 > > autom4te.cache > > config.guess > > config.h.in > > config.sub > > configure > > depcomp > > install-sh > > missing > > and all the Makefile.in's generated from Makefile.am's > > > > disappear? > > Usually I would 'rm -rf' the source directory and they would all > disappear. > > What use model are you envisioning? It's helpful when preparing to check things in to revision control to remove _all_ generated files. rm -rf does this, but is a little more brutal than I have in mind. > > I'm also have in my head that it's OK to have the source > > directory on a read-only file system but then these > > files would have to go somewhere else. This isn't my > > goal, but perhaps they're related? > > What you are asking about is essentially a "VPATH build". > You will need GNU make to effectively use this feature. I assumed this, yes. Sorry I didn't make this clear. > In summary the process is like this: > > Given a source directory project-X.Y build in a different > directory. Frequently beside it but could actually be > quite far away. > > chmod -R a-w project # Just to show that it can be read-only > > mkdir debug-build > cd debug-build > ../project/configure CFLAGS=-g > make > > cd .. > mkdir opt-build > cd opt-build > ../project/configure CFLAGS=-O > make > > cd .. > rm -rf debug-build opt-build This makes sense but what if we assume that we're starting with configure.ac and Makefile.am instead of a configure script and Makefile.in? At this point the source directory can no longer be read only, correct? -DB _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
