> -----Original Message-----
> From: Akim Demaille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 07 June 2002 16:06
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: cache directory is not removed
>
>
> >>>>> "Sam" == Sam Steingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Sam> nope. when I distribute CLISP, I cannot assume that my users
> Sam> have autoconf, so I distribute the generated configure scripts
> Sam> too. i.e., the configure scripts are in the source tree and are
> Sam> regenerated just before a release. thus, if I use autoconf 2.53,
> Sam> I have to remove the cache directories by hand before a release,
> Sam> so that they do not end up in the distribution file.
>
> But how do you write you dist target? How come it ends in the
> tarball!?!
I think this is a relavent question; you need to tweak your config files to
stop this from being included in the make dist tar ball.
Sadly *I* don't know how to do this, but it is the real answer, you are
going to get lots of files created which aren't part of the distribution as
time goes by
Sam
