diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 75660c9302d74ff7c9b94759508b37255191e5f9..d1ce9014a7bf755245b0744dd8f825359f5b2ece 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ Makefile
 Makefile.in
 *.spec
 /config.*
+*.swp
+*.so
 
 # Ignore rendered docs
 doc/doxygen/html-everything
diff --git a/src/git.test b/src/git.test
deleted file mode 100644
index 9766475a4185a151dc9d56d614ffb9aaea3bfd42..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/git.test
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-ok
diff --git a/tools/portaudio.sh b/tools/portaudio.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index e359da311f9065c7d963cde9fe8de8eaae99a813..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tools/portaudio.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-PORTAUDIO_SOURCE=http://portaudio.com/archives/pa_snapshot_v19.tar.gz
-PORTAUDIO_FILE=$(basename $PORTAUDIO_SOURCE)
-PORTAUDIO_DIR=portaudio
-PORTAUDIO_CONFIGURE_ARG=$@
-
-if [ ! -f $PORTAUDIO_FILE ]; then
- wget $PORTAUDIO_SOURCE
-fi
-
-if [ ! -d $PORTAUDIO_DIR ]; then
- tar xzvf $PORTAUDIO_FILE
-fi
-
-if [ ! -f $PORTAUDIO_DIR/Makefile ]; then
-  cd $PORTAUDIO_DIR
-  ./configure --enable-cxx $PORTAUDIO_CONFIGURE_ARG
-
-  make
-  
-  echo "To install portaudio (as root): " 
-  echo "su -c \"cd $PORTAUDIO_DIR && make install\""
-  echo ""
-
-  
-fi