Re: [Gnu-arch-users] newbie question re: precious files, autoconf/automake

[Robin Farine]

On Wednesday 23 June 2004 23.33, Ron Arts wrote:

> The problem is the main package contains lots of (generated)
> Makefile.in's in many directories. Should I now delete the
> precious definition from =tagging-method
> and create a .arch-inventory in every subdir that contains a
> Makefile.in, stating
> it as a precious file there? This is pretty inconvenient.

The idea is to handle the common case in =tagging-method and the 
exceptions in .arch-inventory. So, just adding a .arch-inventory 
file with "source Makefile\.in" to the non-automake subpackage 
directory should work.

Robin