Re: Autoconf and CVS

[Daniel Pekelharing]

On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 03:13 -0500, David Fang wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Hi,
>       There's a target called 'maintainer-clean' that will remove them.
> This target, however, is enabled by AM_MAINTAINER_MODE, in your
> configure.ac.  It is disabled by default, and in its place are Makefile
> targets for automatically re-invoking the proper autotools and
> config.status when the relevant input files have changed.  I typically
> keep around a "rm `find ...`" script for removing maintainer-files to that
> I don't have to configure-generate a Makefile before maintainer-cleaning,
> which is extremely rare (for me).
> 
> 
> David Fang

Ah OK, Thanks!

I actually don't really need it that much, as I was just wanting to make
sure it was clean for my initial CVS import... so I only need to use it
once.

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Daniel Pekelharing
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