CoCoA

John Abbott wrote:

Christof suggests making a cleaner CVS repository:
(essentially all generated files should not be in the repository)

• the dependency files for make
• the html documentation, also PDF
• possibly library.H
• and some files in src/CoCoA-5/ such as C5.pro and C5.app

I thought we had already removed (some of) them

In compensation, we can add a target to the top Makefile which builds all files which should be in a "tar-ball" for public release; it could also build the tar-ball itself!

I have a shell script making the tar-ball: I find it more readable that a makefile...

Yes, shell scripts are much more readable than Makefile code. So we arrange for the make target to call your shell script :-)

Here is why I think the dependency files and the C5.pro file should not be in there.

1) They are generated automatically, so there is no need.

2) The existing files include information depending on the configuration, for example paths like
/Users/abbott/Work/NORMALIZ/Normaliz-fa48939/libnormaliz/cone.h
So they cannot used by others.

3) They make the diff less clear.

Another little argument for my point:

make veryclean; cvs up
gives warnings like
cvs update: warning: `include/CoCoA/library.H' was lost
U include/CoCoA/library.H

Another argument: The CVS merged some Makefile_dependencies and when I then tried to compile I just got

Makefile_dependencies:50: *** missing separator. Stop.

and had do find the directory to delete that file. Even "make dependencies" gave the same error.

In the CoCoA5 dir also C5Makefile is created (together with C5.pro) and depend on autoconf.mk.
So I suggest to remove it from the cvs.

JAA has removed all Makefile_dependencies from CVS.

It looks much cleaner now.
I'm not sure how the .cvsignore works but maybe you want to add the Makefile_dependencies to it?