Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Some things about Autoconf

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 04:38  PM, Alexander Strange wrote:
>>> 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.
>
Oh, good eye on InfoPList.strings. I had forgotten that one.

Do you still need those three files moved? README.txt->README and such?

-Jeremy Parsons