[Aegisvm-devel] Make targets

[Philip F. <pw...@us...>]

Hi all,

I have added the following information to the HACKING file.  Hope it
is useful to you.

* Make Targets

As the Makefiles are generated by autoconf/automake, they provides
the standard targets specified in the GNU Coding Standard.  We
describe some of the more useful ones here.

** clean

  A "make clean" will remove all files generated by "make all".
  Do this when you need a clean build.

** maintainer-clean

  A "make maintainer-clean" will remove all generated files,
  including those that comes with the distribution (e.g. Makefiles,
  configure, etc).  Normally you do not need to do a maintainer-clean.
  All you need is to modify the sources of the generated files, and
  the targets will be regenerated by make.  Do a maintainer-clean only
  if you have all the tools mentioned in the previous section (you don't
  need cvs2cl.pl unless you are doing a "make dist" or a "make
distcheck").

** check

  A "make check" will run all the regression test scripts.  Do this
  after you make changes assures that you haven't broken anything.

** tags/TAGS

  A "make tags" or "make TAGS" will run GNU etag to generate TAGS
  files (i.e. cross-reference databases) for all subdirectories.
  You can then use the GNU emacs editor to navigate the code base.

** dist

  A "make dist" will create a tarball of the distribution.  The ChangeLog
  file is generated by cvs2cl.pl.  Therefore, you will need to install
  the Perl script if you are doing a "make dist" from a CVS checkout
  or if you "make dist" after "make maintainer-clean".

** distcheck

  A "make dist" will create a tarball of the distribution, test if
  installation and uninstallation is okay, and run the test scripts.


Philip

*  Philip W. L. Fong
*  pw...@us...