Re: [Gcl-devel] makefile's and configure

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks for the suggestions!

Michael Koehne <address@hidden> writes:

> Moin Camm,
> 
>   in freenode #lisp channel 
> 
>   <rtoy> kraehe: I should say I always have problems building gcl in the
>   same directory more than once.  Something doesn't get cleaned up.
>   /me had cursed the same problem.
> 
>   some improvements to makefile's (that are in my patch) 
> 
>   ansi-tests/makefile :
>       the "rmdir scratch" should be "-rmdir scratch" else one cant
>       do `make test`

OK, Paul seems to have already committed 'rm -rf'.

>   clcs_makefile :
>         I've commented the .INTERMEDIATE saved_clcs_gcl, as I run often
>       in a situation, that I need those files, to detect whats going
>       wrong.

OK, will commit.

>   makefile :
>         I've commented the .INTERMEDIATE saved_clcs_gcl, as I run often
>       in a situation, that I need those files, to detect whats going

OK will commit

>       wrong. The followin `make remake` will clean up, so one can
>       remake GCL, without worring about old libs or saved cores.
> 
>       remake:
>               -rm -f unixport/saved_* unixport/lib* unixport/raw_*
>               make all
> 

Put these in the clean target of unixport/makefile

>   last a wish - could you drop ./configure from CVS - this file is
>   generated by autoconf and should therefore not be in CVS.
> 

While true, most people do not have autoconf, I think, and do not edit
configure.in et.al.  Is it not customary for projects to include a
pre-compiled configure script for such cases?

Take care,

> Bye Michael
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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