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authorWerner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>2014-09-05 06:29:29 +0200
committerWerner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>2014-09-05 06:29:29 +0200
commit270158fdde57002647712d803c14f098d33c822c (patch)
treecf000c49f272a713e826ce7cad67ffe4b1d2a643 /INSTALL.REPO
parent3c8a3b0a10c092c0f7a87ec8b9da49e18b057074 (diff)
downloadgroff-git-270158fdde57002647712d803c14f098d33c822c.tar.gz
Fix `.gitignore' to really ignore `autom4te.cache' and friends.
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diff --git a/INSTALL.REPO b/INSTALL.REPO
index ff4319c4b..4cd6557ec 100644
--- a/INSTALL.REPO
+++ b/INSTALL.REPO
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
This file contains information that supplements the generic
installation instructions in file `INSTALL.gen'. It is meant for
people building directly from the development repository, rather than
-a release or snapshot tarball .
+a release or snapshot tarball.
If you want to start compiling the `groff' system with an existing
script `configure' you won't need the information in this file.
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ for creating the following and some more files:
configure
Makefile
-To change the file `aclocal.m4', run the shell command
+To update file `aclocal.m4', run the shell command
$ aclocal -I m4
@@ -46,16 +46,11 @@ Just ignore this. It doesn't occur in the actual versions of
You may even use the shell command
- $ autoconf
+ $ autoconf -I m4
instead of `autoreconf', but that will ignore some features. So
`autoreconf' is better.
-During the run of `autoconf' of `autoreconf', a directory
-`autom4te.cache' is created in the groff source top directory. These
-directory should be removed manually. The mentioning in `.gitignore'
-is not hard enough.
-
`automake' is not used currently, however, we plan to convert the
build system accordingly. If you have experience in creating
`Makefile.am' files we would be glad if you could help us in the