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Re: EXTRA_DIST and CVS directories
- To: Ganesan Rajagopal <rganesan at myrealbox dot com>
- Subject: Re: EXTRA_DIST and CVS directories
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: 17 Dec 2000 16:41:46 -0700
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org
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>>>>> "Ganesan" == Ganesan Rajagopal <rganesan@myrealbox.com> writes:
Ganesan> When you provide Automake 1.4 a directory name to EXTRA_DIST
Ganesan> it slurps in the entire directory into the distribution
Ganesan> including any CVS directories. This is strictly not a bug as
Ganesan> per the documentation but makes the feature rather
Ganesan> useless. Can we fix this to exclude CVS subdirectories and
Ganesan> backup files (files ending in ~). Thanks.
I really don't want to do that. Having a directory in EXTRA_DIST is a
bad idea. I only added because many people thought they wanted it. I
definitely don't want to go down the road of "exclude this, exclude
that". It seems like a never-ending road to me.
Tom