Re: [HACKERS] Removing derived files from CVS

Then <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> spoke up and said:
> Agreed here too...someone at one point mentioned that there might be a
> way, inside of CVS, to have it auto-generate these files as its being
> checked out (ie. if file is configure.in, run autoconf)...

>From the info file:
Module options
--------------

Either regular modules or ampersand modules can contain options,
which supply additional information concerning the module.
[snip]
`-i PROG'
Specify a program PROG to run whenever files in a module are
committed. PROG runs with a single argument, the full pathname of
the affected directory in a source repository. The `commitinfo',
`loginfo', and `verifymsg' files provide other ways to call a
program on commit.

`-o PROG'
Specify a program PROG to run whenever files in a module are
checked out. PROG runs with a single argument, the module name.

>From my reading, it looks like the easiest thing to do is set up
commit rules such that committing gram.y automatically generates
gram.c. It looks like it might be difficult to have gram.c generated
completely "on the fly" and then passed to the CVS client.

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