[Ur] Best practices for Mercurial + autogeneration of files?

[Jason Gross]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Adam Chlipala <adamc at csail.mit.edu> wrote:

>  I've finally gotten around to removing autogenerated files from the
> Mercurial repo.  Would anyone like to help me sanity-check the result?
>
> I've put up a dry run of a source distribution here:
>     http://www.impredicative.com/ur/urweb-test.tgz
> It would be great if some folks could try building and installing from
> that tarball and let me know how it goes.
>

Works fine for me on Ubuntu 12.04.3.


>
> Also, the public Mercurial repository should now omit all autogenerated
> files.  It would be helpful to hear from people who manage to build and
> install from fresh clones of that repo, which lives at:
>     http://hg.impredicative.com/urweb
> If you notice any autogenerated files that still appear in a fresh clone,
> I'd be very glad to hear about them.
>

They all seem to be gone.  However, I think it's standard practice to
include an executable "autogen.sh" file in the top level directory which
goes something along the lines of

#!/bin/sh
autoreconf -fvi

-Jason
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