Re: [Libosmscout-development] gitignore

[Tim T. <ti...@fr...>]

Hello Adrian,

> Hi, two quick questions:

> When building normally (msys2 + setupautoconf.h) it creates an in-source
> build with lots of tmp files which makes it ugly for git handling.

> - Is there a way to do an out-of-source build?

Yes. In principle this is possible. See  
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7154402/autoconf-build-directory

I haven't however every tried it and it is possible that it fails  
without some fixes in the configure/Make files. Note that  
out-of-source builds are the default for cmake.

> - Or can we officially add like *.exe, *.o, *.m4 and the likes to
> .gitignore?

Yes. I haven't yet done it though, because I missed it on the start  
and later on assumed that on different platform things will have  
different names and directories. But it is of course OK and should be  
the goal and patches are welcome.
-- 
Gruß...
    Tim