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

[Adam Chlipala]

OK, thanks.  I've added the script you suggested originally.  (It always 
surprised me that there wasn't a single standard command line to do all 
this stuff, and I'm glad to see that there is!)

On 11/21/2013 04:07 PM, Jason Gross wrote:
> On my machine, your first autoreconf fails, but the second one runs 
> fine.  autoreconf -fvi informs me that it calls:
> aclocal --force -I m4
> libtoolize --install --copy --force
> autoconf --force
> autoheader --force
> automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
>
> (It also doesn't error like your autoreconf call.)  The -i option will 
> also call autopoint, if it's deemed necessary.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Adam Chlipala <adamc at csail.mit.edu 
> <mailto:adamc at csail.mit.edu>> wrote:
>
>     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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