git-based release and distribution management for automake

2010-09-03 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi, Last year, I wrote to the list to show an initial demonstration of integrating automake with git version control. This work has been largely dormant since then, but over the last couple of weeks I have completed an initial fully working implementation which may be of interest to others. The

Re: Automake and Texinfo: clean the info or pdf file

2010-09-03 Thread YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:05:11 -0400 Alfred M. Szmidt a...@gnu.org wrote: If I call : $ make The .info file is built. If I call : $ make clean The .info file is not cleaned. It is the same thing for pdf, if I call : $

User extensions

2010-09-03 Thread Valentin David
Dear Automake list, I work with programming languages. It is very common to write small compilers, parser generators, or other. When using my tools, it is hard to convince my co-workers they should use the autotools when I cannot do the proper extension of Automake. Other people end up writing

Re: Automake and Texinfo: clean the info or pdf file

2010-09-03 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Friday 03 September 2010, YuGiOhJCJ Mailing wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:05:11 -0400 What target can help me to remove the .info file built with the make command? Why the Makefile is removed when I call the distclean target? Because it is generated by configure (well,

Re: Automake and Texinfo: clean the info or pdf file

2010-09-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/03/2010 11:07 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Why the Makefile is removed when I call the distclean target? Because it is generated by configure And more particularly, because Makefile is machine-dependent and must NOT be part of a tarball. Remember, 'make distclean' is the process