Re: cvsignore ?

[Paul Kienzle]

On May 2, 2006, at 5:50 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On  2-May-2006, David Bateman wrote:
>
> | If we are going to stay with CVS for a little while, one thing I'd
> | really like to see added is the use of cvsignore files, so that I can
> | more easily identify files that are in the source tree but shouldn't 
> be
> | or should be and aren't committed. Can I propose that the attached
> | cvsignore files are added and committed?
>
> If you build Octave in a directory separate from the source tree, then
> the number of junk files that accumulate in the source tree is fairly
> small and most (#*, *~) are ignored by CVS by default.

It is pretty easy to do as well.  Just create the build directory,
change to it, and type

        path_to_octave_cvs/configure --configure_options
        make ; make check ; make install

- Paul