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Re: Autoconf and CVS
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Daniel Pekelharing |
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Re: Autoconf and CVS |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:02:53 +0200 |
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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