Autoconf and Automake macros.

[Tom Howard]

Hi,

I'm a lazy person, but probably not it the way you would think.  I hate having 
to do the same tasks over and over again, so I have a habit of automating 
tasks with helpful scripts.  When it comes to development, this usually means 
adding custom targets to my Makefile.am files.

Well I've finally gotten around to cleaning them up a bit so they can easily 
be used with other projects, so then are now looking for a friendly (or 
fiendly) home.  They consit of a m4 component and a am component (I know, not 
what you usually see on ac-archives, but what the hell, someone has to start 
the ball rolling).  The m4 component is used as normal and the am component 
goes into a file called aminclude.am (I know, I like the name too) and 
'include aminclude.am' is added to the toplevel Makefile.am.  Not too 
complicated I hope (otherwise I'm really in the wrong place).

Please find attached the following files:

ax_extra_dist.tgz - Adds support for custom dist targets, which can be built 
by running `make dist-src`, `make dist-bin` or `make all-dist`.

ax_upload.tgz - Adds support for uploading dist targets by running `make 
upload-gzip`, `make upload-src`, `make upload-bin` or `make upload-all`

ax_cvs.tgz - Adds cvs integration to you Makefile.  Stuff like branching 
(creates the branch, updates the version and checks out the branch to a new 
directory), releasing, updating, committing (creates a ChangeLog template for 
you and then uses the edited version for the commit log and prepends it to 
your ChangeLog; I never did lick having to write it once for the ChangeLog 
and once for the commit log) and adding and removing files.

ax_dist_rpm.tgz - Adds rpm and srpm building support you and flags them for 
uploading if your using ax_upload.am

ax_dist_msi.tgz - Adds msi support in that your specify where the file will 
created and it will be renamed correctly and uploaded along with any other 
bin files.

This is the first time I'm contributing here, so I won't be surprised if you 
come back with a whole heap of corrections (especially because of the 
whole .am thing).

Hope you find them useful enough to add to the archive.

Cheers,
   
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Tom Howard
Yahoo: bjandtomau
MSM: address@hidden

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