[Zlib-devel] configure script

[Charles Wilson]

On 9/17/2011 11:59 AM, Mark Adler wrote:
> On Sep 17, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> (that is, when/if out-of-tree builds are supported by zlib's build system).
> 
> What's that?

$ tar xzf foo-1.2.3.tar.gz
$ ls
foo-1.2.3/
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../foo-1.2.3/configure
$ make

>> Also, it means that every "git diff" reports "extra" changes to zconf.h
> 
> Should I just add zconf.h (and Makefile) to .gitignore?

Yes, that too.  However, if you leave zconf.h and Makefile in the
repository, then ONLY adding them to .gitignore means that you can't
modify them even if you want to -- unless you first /remove/ their name
from .gitignore temporarily.  Storing autogen'ed files in the repo is
just ugly all the way around.

--
Chuck