Re: [xml] Some tarball questions

[Mike Hommey <mh glandium org>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   Yes that's something I wonder about. Except differences
> in configuration option, it's bizarre. One possibility might
> be that the order of the functions is not the same which can come
> from the order of the functions in the hash tables, which can be
> python version dependant but will not change the semantic of the
> generated file.

This is exactly what happens, after a deeper search.

Anyway, I worked out something (attached to this mail) that doesn't 
change anything for you and solves a part of my problem, while being 
more automake friendly, even though it doesn't bring full consistency.

Basically, the CLEANFILES thing is the automake way of doing what you 
did with your clean target override, and gets used in *all* the clean 
targets (including distclean), contrary to the clean target override 
(distclean doesn't call clean).
Note that I added the libxml2class.txt file in the GENERATED list 
because it is actually generated and did not get removed properly.

Also note that it doesn't change the libxml2-py.c file problem, and that 
a make distclean still removes much more that would be included in the 
tarball by a make dist, but i'm trying to take a deeper look at these 
issues.

Sorry if you felt bothered about the whole issue, I'll try to be more 
explicit next time, though my first approach tends to be to check if 
developpers know about some issues before look deeper into the thing 
before realizing it was already known, but just kept that way for some 
reason...

Mike

--- libxml2-2.6.8/python/Makefile.am    2003-12-21 20:01:40.000000000 +0900
+++ libxml2-2.6.8.new/python/Makefile.am        2004-04-14 22:10:15.000000000 +0900
@@ -50,10 +50,13 @@
 GENERATE = generator.py
 API_DESC = $(top_srcdir)/doc/libxml2-api.xml $(srcdir)/libxml2-python-api.xml
 GENERATED= $(srcdir)/libxml2class.py \
+           $(srcdir)/libxml2class.txt \
            $(srcdir)/libxml2-export.c \
           $(srcdir)/libxml2-py.c \
           $(srcdir)/libxml2-py.h
 
+CLEANFILES= $(GENERATED) gen_prog libxml2.py
+
 $(GENERATED): gen_prog
 
 gen_prog: $(srcdir)/$(GENERATE) $(API_DESC)
@@ -67,7 +70,3 @@
 endif
 tests test: all
        cd tests && $(MAKE) tests
-
-clean:
-       rm -f $(GENERATED) *.o _libxml.so *.pyc libxml2.py gen_prog
-