[gambit-list] best practices with gambit / compile-to-c / and git

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Sun Feb 15 20:45:19 EST 2009


On 15-Feb-09, at 7:38 PM, lowly coder wrote:

> foo.scm -> foo.c -> foo.o1
>
> this is cool, except I keep track of stuff with git, and I like "git  
> status" to be clean
>
> The foo.o1 files don't bother me (I have a "*.o*" in .gitignore --  
> but i'm a bit hesistant to put a *.c into my .gitignore)

You should only put foo.scm under git.  After all the other files can  
be generated using the Gambit compiler and a C compiler.  That's how  
the Gambit git repo is setup.  If you want the generated .c files then  
you can get them in the .tar.gz distribution.

Marc



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