Re: Autoconf and CVS

2006-01-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:49:16AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > It must be nice to have such a simple project. :-) > > For my own project, released autoconf and automake have been fine, but > released libtool has never been quite good enough. So for many years, > I have used hand-twe

Re: Autoconf and CVS

2006-01-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Stepan Kasal wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 10:26:10AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: In some cases most of the project developers don't want to have anything to do with build maintenance. They just want to edit existing C/C++ source code. This is natural. But they might

Re: Autoconf and CVS

2006-01-04 Thread David Fang
Ah, my bad! I was confused again by my own project where I have a "maintainerclean" script that does a 'make maintainer-clean' followed by removal of other maintainer files -- more than just maintainer-clean. (Duh!) It looks something like this: -8<

Re: Autoconf and CVS

2006-01-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:13:41AM -0500, David Fang wrote: > > > [...] how do I completely clean all generated files? > There's a target called 'maintainer-clean' that will remove them. > This target, however, is enabled by AM_MAINTAINER_MODE, [...] two mistakes here: "make maintainer-c

Re: Autoconf and CVS

2006-01-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 08:52:12AM -0700, Ed Hartnett wrote: > I have a project with several developers, and we keep the configure.ac > and the configure checked in, but we are moving towards only having > configure.ac checked in. > > In general there will be on developer taking the lead o

Re: Autoconf and CVS

2005-12-26 Thread Ed Hartnett
David Fang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Interesting thought: Wouldn't it get annoying if many devs are working >> > on one CVS controlled project, and they have different version >> > autotools, surely each time they commit their changes they're possibly >> > going to have conflicts? Which wou

Re: Autoconf and CVS

2005-12-24 Thread Harlan Stenn
The problem with keeping the generated files in the code management system is that the timestamps mess up you can have a bigger mess to clean up. You should also knmow what versions of the auto* tools you require, and use AC_PREREQ() in configure.ac and AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in your Makefile.am files.

Re: Autoconf and CVS

2005-12-24 Thread Keith Marshall
On Saturday 24 December 2005 10:15 am, Daniel Pekelharing wrote: > On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 09:24 +0100, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote: > > Hello Daniel, > > > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:40:52AM +0200, Daniel Pekelharing wrote: > > > I am in the process of importing my project into CVS, > > > but I am a

Re: Autoconf and CVS

2005-12-24 Thread David Fang
> > Interesting thought: Wouldn't it get annoying if many devs are working > > on one CVS controlled project, and they have different version > > autotools, surely each time they commit their changes they're possibly > > going to have conflicts? Which would make the files unusable? (until > > resol

Re: Autoconf and CVS

2005-12-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Daniel Pekelharing wrote: Interesting thought: Wouldn't it get annoying if many devs are working on one CVS controlled project, and they have different version autotools, surely each time they commit their changes they're possibly going to have conflicts? Which would make th

Re: Autoconf and CVS

2005-12-24 Thread Ed Hartnett
Daniel Pekelharing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 09:24 +0100, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote: > I did think about that.. > > But as I plan on periodically making releases, which will include all > auto generated files, that should be OK for end users.. (I think ;-)) > > Interesting

Re: Autoconf and CVS

2005-12-24 Thread Daniel Pekelharing
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 09:24 +0100, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote: > Hello Daniel, > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:40:52AM +0200, Daniel Pekelharing wrote: > > I am in the process of importing my project into CVS, > > but I am a little confused as to Autoconf, should I import all generated > > Makefile's

Re: Autoconf and CVS

2005-12-24 Thread 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

Re: Autoconf and CVS

2005-12-24 Thread Baurzhan Ismagulov
Hello Daniel, On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:40:52AM +0200, Daniel Pekelharing wrote: > I am in the process of importing my project into CVS, > but I am a little confused as to Autoconf, should I import all generated > Makefile's, Makefile.in's, configure etc. ? > I personally think I should leave the

Re: Autoconf and CVS

2005-12-24 Thread David Fang
> > 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

Re: Autoconf and CVS

2005-12-24 Thread Daniel Pekelharing
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 02:56 -0500, Braden McDaniel wrote: > On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 09:40 +0200, Daniel Pekelharing wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am in the process of importing my project into CVS, > > but I am a little confused as to Autoconf, should I import all generated > > Makefile's, Makefile.i

Re: Autoconf and CVS

2005-12-23 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 09:40 +0200, Daniel Pekelharing wrote: > Hi all, > > I am in the process of importing my project into CVS, > but I am a little confused as to Autoconf, should I import all generated > Makefile's, Makefile.in's, configure etc. ? > I personally think I should leave them out of