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

Adam Chlipala adamc at csail.mit.edu
Thu Nov 21 16:02:00 EST 2013


On 11/21/2013 03:57 PM, Jason Gross wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Adam Chlipala <adamc at csail.mit.edu 
> <mailto:adamc at csail.mit.edu>> wrote:
>
>     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

Ah, thanks, that makes sense.  The invocation I use is:
     autoreconf
     libtoolize -cf
     automake --add-missing --force-missing --copy
     autoreconf

Does the one you're suggesting do the same things?
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