diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ed690f89c..01c32fa89 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,4 +6,10 @@
 .sconsign.dblite
 Buildhelper.pyc
 optcache
-
+Makefile.in
+build/*
+autom4te.cache/*
+scripts/*
+configure
+aclocal.m4
+semantic.cache
diff --git a/scripts/DIR_INFO b/scripts/DIR_INFO
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..265ca57ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/DIR_INFO
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+autotools helper scripts