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Autotools .gitignore Template

Standard Autotools gitignore template from upstream github/gitignore collection. Generated and merged deterministically with upstream GitHub repository patterns to keep your repository clean of package directories, temporary build artifacts, and local environment files.

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### Autotools ###
# http://www.gnu.org/software/automake
Makefile.in
/ar-lib
/mdate-sh
/py-compile
/test-driver
/ylwrap
.deps/
.dirstamp
# http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf
autom4te.cache
/autoscan.log
/autoscan-*.log
/aclocal.m4
/compile
/config.cache
/config.guess
/config.h.in
/config.log
/config.status
/config.sub
/configure
/configure.scan
/depcomp
/install-sh
/missing
/stamp-h1
# https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/
/libtool
/ltmain.sh
.libs/
# http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo
/texinfo.tex
# http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/
m4/libtool.m4
m4/ltoptions.m4
m4/ltsugar.m4
m4/ltversion.m4
m4/lt~obsolete.m4
# Generated Makefile
# (meta build system like autotools,
# can automatically generate from config.status script
# (which is called by configure script))
Makefile
56 lines•UTF-8
Deterministic

Raw Autotools .gitignore

Crawlable upstream source template
autotools.gitignore•55 lines•UTF-8
# http://www.gnu.org/software/automake
Makefile.in
/ar-lib
/mdate-sh
/py-compile
/test-driver
/ylwrap
.deps/
.dirstamp
# http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf
autom4te.cache
/autoscan.log
/autoscan-*.log
/aclocal.m4
/compile
/config.cache
/config.guess
/config.h.in
/config.log
/config.status
/config.sub
/configure
/configure.scan
/depcomp
/install-sh
/missing
/stamp-h1
# https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/
/libtool
/ltmain.sh
.libs/
# http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo
/texinfo.tex
# http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/
m4/libtool.m4
m4/ltoptions.m4
m4/ltsugar.m4
m4/ltversion.m4
m4/lt~obsolete.m4
# Generated Makefile
# (meta build system like autotools,
# can automatically generate from config.status script
# (which is called by configure script))
Makefile

Key Pattern Breakdown

Execution Caches & Runtime Logs

Diagnostic logs, runtime metadata, test coverage reports, and incremental compiler caches that cause noisy repository diffs.

autom4te.cache/autoscan.log/autoscan-*.log/config.cache/config.log

Source & Verification

License: CC0-1.0

Place this file in the root directory of your project as .gitignore. Changes take effect on newly added or untracked files.