Running the test cases cause some pollution of the source tree, which makes `git status` unhappy and a command such as `git add` would mistakenly add bogus files to the git tree.
The recommended workaround is to do out-of-tree builds. We can try to *suggest* or *enforce* it by using the AX_ENABLE_BUILDDIR macro from the autoconf-archive project which can be found here: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_enable_builddir.html That way, if an in-tree build is attempted, the makefiles will instead create a build/ subdirectory and place all build artifacts there. Normal out-of-tree builds are not affected, no new build/ directory is introduced with no changes to the original layout. Update the .gitignore file to list /build and to stop listing files that are no longer expected on the source tree (such as *.o, etc.) While at it, introduce a prequel commit to enable the automake subdir-objects option, which causes automake 1.14 to print a deprecation warning, and only affects testsuite/libdejagnu/unit.o so it should be pretty safe. Thanks, Filipe Filipe Brandenburger (2): Enable subdir-objects automake option Use build/ subdirectory to store build artifacts .gitignore | 12 +- ChangeLog | 18 +++ Makefile.in | 69 ++++++---- aclocal.m4 | 2 + configure | 350 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- configure.ac | 4 +- m4/ax_configure_args.m4 | 70 ++++++++++ m4/ax_enable_builddir.m4 | 301 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 8 files changed, 789 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) create mode 100644 m4/ax_configure_args.m4 create mode 100644 m4/ax_enable_builddir.m4 -- 2.2.0.rc0.207.ga3a616c _______________________________________________ DejaGnu mailing list DejaGnu@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dejagnu
