[Gnu-arch-users] Auto-generated source files

[Mark A. Flacy]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Zander <address@hidden> writes:
Thomas> 
Thomas> Question;

Thomas> In my (java) tool I generate source files from
Thomas> graphics-designer-files.  These go in the same dir as other source
Thomas> files, and into the normal build process.  

Well, that's the start of your problems right there.  We don't do that 
at work and we're a ClearCase shop.

Write the autogenerated stuff to another directory and add that directory
to your javac source path via the "-sourcepath <path>" option.

(If you also write your .class files in the same directories as your source
 files, that's another bad idea.  Use the "-d <directory>" option to write
 them somewhere and add that directory to the front of your 
 "-classpath <path>"  option.)

Thomas> The result is that I get
Thomas> warnings at commit from tla about source files that don't have a
Thomas> tag, or about them not been added (dependant on tagging-method).
Thomas> 
Thomas> Is there any way I can mark a couple of files as junk files,
Thomas> without editing the regular expressions in the =tagging-method
Thomas> file?

Not to my knowledge.  There was discussion about a tagging method that
might work better under your constraints.

Thomas> Or, as an alternative, can you provide better regular expression
Thomas> ideas that the following will mark files as junk instead?
Thomas> 
Thomas> The source file is
Thomas>     bla.ui
Thomas> the autogenerated file is
Thomas>     bla.java

Thomas> Hence; with the presence of a .ui, the .java should be
Thomas> ignored. (and only then)

I haven't looked that closely at that part of the code in a long while, but
I do believe that Tom's code only looks at the file names independently of
each other.  I doubt that you would be able to apply such conditional
matching. 

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