Jim Meyering wrote:
> Another feature: bootstrap adds .cvsignore and .gitignore
> entries for files it supplies.
Good idea. It has annoyed me as well, but never reached the necessary pain
level. Find attached a patch that implements the first part of it. The
second part will be the handling of CLEANFILES and MOSTLYCLEANFILES.
(Why isn't automake doing this, by the way: copying the list of CLEANFILES
and MOSTLYCLEANFILES into .cvsignore and .gitignore?)
> It'd be great if gnulib-tool could subsume more of the
> functionality in this bootstrap script.
Yes, I agree, limiting it to the functionality relating to gnulib.
However, I prefer to leave out the following from gnulib-tool:
- network accesses (such as doing CVS checkouts or fetching PO files),
due to possible privacy issues,
- parametrization of po/Makefile - that's often better done by hand.
> A missing feature: files supplied by gnulib-tool should be
> removed by "make maintainer-clean". If gnulib-tool doesn't
> do that soon, I'll be changing bootstrap to do it.
It belongs in gnulib-tool, so please change gnulib-tool to do it!
Which is the set of files to be added to MAINTAINERCLEAN_FILES?
- All files copied on behalf of the modules should be included.
- Except lib/getloadavg.c which is needed at configure time.
- All generated Makefile.am and gnulib.mks should not be included,
because without them you cannot do "make" any more.
- gnulib-cache.m4 and gnulib-comp.m4 should not be included, IMO.
Other files that should / should not be included?
Bruno
