Re: svn copy conflicts with autotools ?
Eric PAIRE <[email protected]>
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Bob Proulx wrote: >Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > >>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. >> >> > >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