[Surfraw-devel] autotools-generated files removed from repo, plus various minor changes

[Ian Beckwith]

Hi,

Files generated by autotools are not longer kept in the git repository.

After cloning the repository, run ./prebuild before ./configure
to generate the needed files. You will need automake (at least 1.10)
and autoconf (at least 2.54) installed.

Thanks to James Rowe for his input on this.

./prebuild tries to be smart about the version of aclocal, automake &
autoconf to run, but at the moment only knows about the debian naming
conventions for distinguishing version. Info/patches on how other
distributions work are welcome. If specific versions aren't found,
it falls back to the generic names, so hopefully will still work on
non-debian systems.

I've also made a bunch of minor housekeepingy changes. Full ChangeLog
entry:

2010-03-01  Ian Beckwith  <ianb at erislabs.net>

	* Removed autotools-generated files from git repo
	  use ./prebuild to regenerate.
	* Lower required automake version to 1.10.
	* prebuild: try and find a sane set of autotools, then call
	  autoreconf -vi
	* Add autotools-generated files to .gitignore
	* Bump version to 2.2.7
	* cnn: fix URL.
	* cnn.test: Disable. Bloody CNN now needs javascript for search,
	  so should be tested manually.
	* W, yahoo: fix tests.
	* Remove unused '-quiet' option.
	* Update AUTHORS.
	* Add a note to appendix 1 of HACKING about updating AUTHORS.
	* runtests: explicitly use elvi and config from source tree,
	  now works when surfraw is not installed (but you need to have
	  run make).
	* test/Makefile.am: fix bookfinder typo, add bing.test.
	* remove leading 'sr ' from command lines for following tests:
	    acronym aur bing cliki gcache genportage google javasun l1sp
	    lsm mathworld mininova piratebay youtube
	* HACKING, README, test/README: document autotools and test
	  suite changes.
	* Makefile.am: add surfraw.conf to BUILT_SOURCES so it is
	  made by 'make'. This may be a misuse of BUILT_SOURCES.

Ian.

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