[Gllug] make dist - ignore CVS subdirs

[Nuno Pedrosa]

On Monday 30 March 2009, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> On Mon, March 30, 2009 21:19, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> > On Mon, March 30, 2009 21:07, Nuno Pedrosa wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> On Monday 30 March 2009, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> >>> Since this group appears to be all-knowing, somebody please answer the
> >>> following - how do I get "make dist" to ignore all CVS subdirectories
> >>> in
> >>> the tree ?
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Salsaman.
> >>> http://lives.sourceforge.net
> >>
> >> This seams very odd to me. I am using subvsersion, not CVS in several
> >> projects
> >> and autotools "make dist" does not include any of the .svn dirs. It
> >> should
> >> be
> >> the same for CVS.
> >> Make sure there is no CVS entry in any Makefile.am for the SUBDIRS
> >> variable.
> >>
> >> hope it helps,
> >>
> >> Nuno
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> > Aha - yes that is it, in EXTRA_DIST, I have for example
> >
> > menu-entries/*
> >
> > which packages everything under the menu-entries directory, including
> > CVS.
> >
> >
> > I could change this to specify the exact files instead of using the
> > wildcard, but is there a better way to just exclude CVS ?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Salsaman.
> > http://lives.sourceforge.net
> >
> >
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> Hmm...I guess not, the documentation for autotools states:
>
> "You can also mention a directory in EXTRA_DIST; in this case the entire
> directory will be recursively copied into the distribution. Please note
> that this will also copy everything in the directory, including CVS/RCS
> version control files. We recommend against using this feature. "
>
>
> OK, I will switch to naming individual files and the problem should be
> solved.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Salsaman.
> http://lives.sourceforge.net

glad I could help!

Cheers,

Nuno
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