Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Some things about Autoconf

[Alexander S. <ast...@it...>]

On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 04:32 PM, Br'fin wrote:

>
> On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 04:22  PM, Alexander Strange wrote:
>
>>
>> On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 04:03 PM, Br'fin wrote:
>>> Do you have a list of mpw files I should be removing?
>>
>> Here's some other files that should be renamed (in alephModular/):
>> README.txt to README
>> changelog.txt to ChangeLog
>> gpl.txt to COPYING
>>
>> Automake expects files with these names (it also wants NEWS, but I'm 
>> going to automatically create a blank file with that name in the 
>> script that runs all these)
>>
> *eyebrow quirks* That's interesting, do you happen to know the reason 
> for that? Or is that just general GNUification of a project's 
> structure?
>
> I don't mind doing it, I'm just curious as to why automake needs these 
> non-code files...
>
> -Jeremy Parsons

It seems to just be GNU standards to make it easy to find everything.
Reading the manual, it looks like you can turn it off with the 
'foreign' option.

I've almost finished; just have to create Makefile.am's for the 
directories with no actual code in them, and process project.pbxproj 
and InfoPList.strings.