Re: Autotools, CDBS, and handling generated files

2011-02-27 Thread Matt Kraai
Hi, Thanks for the information. Michael Biebl wrote: > Question is, why do you need to regenerate the build system? Are you patching > configure.ac/Makefile.am? I was trying to patch configure.ac so that the application would be explicitly linked against an additional library. -- Matt Kraai ht

Re: Autotools, CDBS, and handling generated files

2011-02-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 22.02.2011 13:01, schrieb Matt Kraai: > Hi, > > /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz says that the best > practice for handling files generated by Autoconf, Automake, and > Libtool is to generate these files during the build process and make > the clean target remove them. > > /usr/sh

Autotools, CDBS, and handling generated files

2011-02-22 Thread Matt Kraai
Hi, /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz says that the best practice for handling files generated by Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool is to generate these files during the build process and make the clean target remove them. /usr/share/doc/cdbs/cdbs-doc.html provides a facility for genera