Hello Trevor, * Trevor Harmon wrote on Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:18:37AM CEST: > My project lives in a source code repository (Subversion), and I'm > trying to keep all generated files out of it. This would be easier if > there were a built-in way of deleting anything and everything > generated by Autotools. I could then run autoreconf to recreate them > as needed. > > I know about "make maintainer-clean", which does most of the job, but > it still leaves some generated files around: aclocal.m4, config.h.in, > configure, depcomp, INSTALL, install-sh, Makefile.in, and missing. > > Is there another makefile target (or any other built-in mechanism) > that will delete ALL generated files?
Not ATM. Benoit Sigoure has done some work to add such functionality to autotools, but it was not finished. I can dig out a link to the patch proposals. If somebody is interested in finishing those patches, that would be very welcome. Reliably removing all installed/generated files in all possible situations is fairly tricky because there are several cases where files may be generated or hand-written, and because one may only remove the makefile and its dependencies and included files as very last measure done in some directory before leaving that. As a workaround you should be able to tell your version control system which file names/globs it should ignore. Typically, version control also allows you to easily list files which are not under ist control, you could remove them from such a list with a short script. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
