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Re: automake and intermediate files generated by yacc, lex, valac



Michael Tautschnig <mt@debian.org> writes:

>> there are several tools that generate C source code that is later
>> complied in object code, e.g. yacc, lex or valac.  automake defaults to
>> distribute these built intermediate files, so they are usually not
>> regenerated during a build.
>
> Why do you restrict this question to generated C code? configure, Makefile.in
> and some others are generated as well. Wouldn't it be consistent to talk about
> all these files?

I'm not opposed to that, but for now am mainly concerned about files
that end up in the binary packages (or the object code produced from
them).

Regards,
Ansgar


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