Re: Errors when building from source

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Wouter!

> Le 24 janv. 2019 à 09:14, Wouter Beek <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Dear Akim,
> 
> This is what I see when I clone + compile the latest version.  While
> compilation now succeeds, there is still a dirty state afterwards.  I
> think that this is not intended.  The documentation also explicitly
> state that `git diff` should not show changes.

Well, I personally don't like putting too much things in gitignore, it hides 
stray files.  I strongly recommend that you build out-of-tree.  That is to say

./bootstrap
mkdir _build
cd _build
../configure
make

I don't plan to add the missing bits in the gitignores.  IMHO they already 
contain too much stuff.  And I will have to update the README.

> $ git diff
> diff --git a/m4/.gitignore b/m4/.gitignore
> index 43cae90b..f8ce52bc 100644
> --- a/m4/.gitignore
> +++ b/m4/.gitignore
> @@ -195,3 +195,5 @@
> /readlink.m4
> /relocatable-lib.m4
> /relocatable.m4
> +/rename.m4
> +/rmdir.m4

This is not right, thanks for pointing this out, I will fix that.

Cheers!