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


From: Thomas Zander
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Auto-generated source files
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:18:54 +0200
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On Tuesday 14 October 2003 07:56, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Personally, working a lot with Emacs Lisp and Python, both of which
> like to compile to ${SRCNAME}c (and in Python's case, to ${SRCNAME}o
> as well) in the current directory, and with gnuplot (likes to produce
> .tex files), I find the "use a separate build directory or lose"
> policy a mild annoyance.

If you look at the build system of KDE (which is mostly C++) and you do 
build src != build you will still find loads of files in your sourcetree; 
there are just too many applications that either don't know how to build 
outside source; or are a major headace to use if you indeed try.

Most files that are generated are .am or .in files, but there are various 
files with the same extension that go in CVS all the same.
In this case the rule is (again) if there is a XYZ.am.in file; don't put the 
XYZ.am in cvs.

I'm not sure about the best solution for this; but the current state is not 
scaling very well..
- -- 
Thomas Zander
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