GITIGNORE_MAINTAINERCLEANFILES_M4_LIBTOOL ignores AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS

[Bob131]

It took me a while to work out what was happening, until I noticed I had an extra 'S' on my macro invocation :)

Apparently either is equally valid. I thought maybe the 'S' variant had been deprecated or something, but it's the one recommended by the automake manual: https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Local-Macros.html

[behdad]

Thanks. Got Pull-Request?

[Bob131]

Sorry, no. My automake-fu isn't really up to it.

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Behdad Esfahbod
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[behdad]

No worries

[behdad]

Ok. I'm also very distant from that world these days. Let's keep open for now. Thanks.

[mcatanzaro]

Same for AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR.

There is a trick: the directory specified in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR and the directories specified by AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS should really be ignored if and only if there are not any non-ignored files in the directory already. It's totally legitimate to put macros in there under version control, but if you don't have any then you really do want the directory to go in the .gitignore.